Re: alternative response

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/alternative-response-tp7597063p7597205.html

As for Bayesian models of the mind se Glymour's book "The Mind's Arrows"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262072203/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_SXt6EbVR2ASJB

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 3:37 PM Jon Zingale <[hidden email]> wrote:

An attempt to steelman via wingman:

The idea that Glen is proposing is to highlight a sweet spot in one's
experience
where unfamiliarity competes with habit. Glen advocates for bracketing
questions
of a prime mover or that which happens in pathological limits. Instead, he
wishes
to constrain the scope of free will to a question of free versus bound with
respect
to some arbitrary component/scale/neighborhood (the free will zone). I will
try not
to fight this as I still think of this interpretation of *free will* as
being a discussion
of will, determined or not. For instance, I may be willful and determined.
The value
I see in Glen's perspective is that we can develop a grammar for discussing
deliberate
action, perhaps involving a Bayesian update rule to an otherwise evaporative
memory
or local foresight. He is advocating to not concern ourselves with whether
or not
Charles Bukowski was *predestined* to be a drunk, but rather with
determining
where the *choice* to do otherwise may have been.



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