title: Machine free will: is free will a necessary ingredient of machine consciousness?
abstract: Sooner or later, machine consciousness will have to address the elusive notion of free will either to dismiss it or to produce a machine implementation. It is unclear whether freedom and consciousness are independent aspects of the human mind or by-product of the same underlying structure. Here, the relevant literature is reviewed focusing on the connection between determinism and freedom-usually explored by compatibilists. Eventually, a tentative model for machine free will is outlined.
authors: Institute of Communication and Behaviour, IULM University, Via Carlo Bo, 8, 20143 Milan, Italy. riccardo.manzotti@iulm.it
authors: Riccardo
authors: R
authors: Manzotti
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003201:Computers; D008962:Models, Theoretical