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I found that playing Rock, Paper, Scissors against an AI opponent demonstrated at least to me that I was not even able to make what I thought were random choices. The only way I could hold the AI to a draw was by using an external source of random numbers.


Being able to make random choices is of course not free will.

Also the only way to really make random choices is quantum mechanics. Everything else can only look random.


QM can also only "look" random. If human- or machine- intelligence cannot recognize a pattern and cannot predict an outcome doesn't mean another being should be the same.




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