Can a Machine Possess Free Will An Interpretation Compliments of Godel, Hofstadter, Machina, and Smullyan
This paper examines the possibility that artificial intelligences might be able to possess a semblance of free will simply through the programming of human creators. Drawing on such varied sources as Gödel, Hofstadter, Machina, and Smullyan, the author argues that in order to understand the potential of free will in mechanical minds, we must re-imagine free will as the ability to choose from a finite, and not infinite, array of possibilities.
