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0 pointsicebraining7y ago0 comments

Isn't doing things because they are useful a sign of free will? A rock doesn't fall from a cliff because it's useful for it to do so.

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trevyn7y ago

No, just an indication of available degrees of freedom and evolutionary pressure. It is useful for DNA replication machinery to have error-correction capabilities, does this mean DNA replication machinery has free will?

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