Originally Posted by
Looper
On that basis would you say that a sufficiently powerful Artificial Intelligence (or Artificial General Intelligence (able to learn from its experience) to be more precise) could be said to have free will, like humans do, if it is connected to an android body which is able to interact with the world in the same way that a biological human body interacts with the world?
I recommend the novel Machines Like Me for an entertaining story based on this idea. It is not Ian McEwan's finest novel but any Ian McEwan novel is a good read.
Or to flip it the other way, are we performing a calculation when we exercise our free will to make a decision?