Pearl on the illusion of free will.

Judea Pearl, winner of the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, explains his belief that free will is an evolutionarily advantageous illusion. This clip taken from an interview conducted with Pearl by Robert Bingham for the Science network in 2011. Video of the full interview is available as part of Pearl’s ACM profile at amturing.acm.o....

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One of the best descriptions of free will by a computer scientist

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It doesn't seem to matter how smart or dumb someone is, the magical thinking of determinism grips their psyche like a leach and won't let go.

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