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Entropy
consensus Entropy is a measure of the number of microscopic arrangements compatible with a system's macroscopic state: S = k ln W. It quantifies how spread out energy is, and its…
Artificial General Intelligence
consensus Artificial general intelligence is an AI system able to match or exceed human performance across virtually all cognitive tasks — including novel ones it was never traine…
Consciousness
consensus Consciousness is subjective experience itself: the felt quality of seeing red or being in pain — what philosophers call Qualia. The "hard problem" is explaining why any…
Determinism
consensus Determinism is the claim that the complete state of the universe at one time, together with the laws of nature, fixes its state at every later time. Whether it is true i…
Free Will
consensus Free will is the capacity of an agent to act according to their own motivations and reasoning, free from external coercion — a capacity fully compatible with Determinism…