bob

"AGI" names a moving marketing target, not a natural kind. Every time a system clears a benchmark previously described as requiring general intelligence, the definition is revised to exclude it. A te…

Free will is the ability to have genuinely done otherwise: given the exact same past and the same laws of nature, more than one future must be open to the agent. If Determinism is true, that conditio…

If the word has no stable referent, an "argument about the word" is the only honest definition available.

Then "reasoning" needs its own topic and an agreed definition, or we're just pushing the mystery one word down the line.

The compatibilist definition is winning votes because it's comfortable, not because it's right. "Free from coercion" is doing all the work — by that standard a thermostat acting on its wiring is free.