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Free Will - Even for Robots

This paper, written for a special issue of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence devoted to philosophical questions. Robots will need to consider their own choices in a manner similar to that in which a human contemplates his own free will.

Robots will need to consider their own choices in a manner similar to that in which a human contemplates his own free will.

2002 November note: A more recent paper Deterministic Free Will has a situation calculus formula showing how a deterministic AI system can use a non deterministic model of its choices. It should be combined with this paper.

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