CCAIJun 25, 2022

A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Free Will

arXiv:2206.13942v53 citationsh-index: 43
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This addresses a philosophical problem for researchers in theoretical computer science and philosophy, but appears incremental as it applies existing computational frameworks to a known concept.

The paper tackles the paradoxical concept of free will by analyzing it from a theoretical computer science perspective, focusing on computational principles and resource limitations, but does not report specific results or numbers.

We consider the paradoxical concept of free will from the perspective of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), a branch of mathematics concerned with understanding the underlying principles of computation and complexity, including the implications and surprising consequences of resource limitations.

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