When we encounter the unknown, we seek help, usually of someone with more experience. We are social beings with the ability to communicate concepts and transfer knowledge about the unknown. Another thing we can do is investigate carefully, taking what we know and extrapolating similar things to a new situation. Because our ability to imagine possibilities and consequences of behaviours gives us insights into the unknown, once a brain is sufficiently experienced it can do this to carefully learn about an unknown without getting into trouble.bahman wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:08 pmYes, we most of the time follow a chain of causality like when I read your writing. But we have the freedom to go against it.Dimebag wrote: ↑What if, a person learns consequences of actions (behaviour for age) based on past experience, then when they encounter a similar situation in the future, the normal stimulus response pattern is interrupted by this memory which is basically saying, stop or something bad will happen, so you stop. That is in theory completely deterministic.
I am not mistaken. The source of will is the mind. Why? Because we have free will.
Yes, sometimes I am a mere observer unless for example when I decide freely or when I create a thought.
Can you design a deterministic machine that has the ability to decide when the situation is uncertain? Of course, more part of the brain is involved in decision making in an uncertain situation since the mind needs more data to process to overcome the difficult situation. But, what happens when all your life experience cannot tell you how to decide in a given situation? You are still free to pick up any option in spite of the fact that the outcome of options is not known.Dimebag wrote: ↑Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:38 pm Behaviours, memories, decisions all happen, sometimes when a situation is uncertain, the observer becomes more of a facilitator, allowing wider sections of the brain to contribute to decisions, which feels like we the observer is deciding wilfully, yet it is just passing the messages back and forth between separate brain regions.
Furthermore, if we still don’t know what to do, we can sometimes try what worked previously, and observe the result, updating our model of the problem and hypothesising a better solution.
This is all theoretically possible deterministically. Once you allow the imagination of the future, you artificially create the ability to choose between imagined futures, when the reality is, there is nothing nondeterministic about it.