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This is a naive take on "choice" here; your freedom to "choose" extends only so far as the environment and your internal state allows it, which if you work backwards, you'll find leaves no room for such "choice".

And sure a machine can "choose" to ignore its inputs, chatgpt does it all the time depending on the prompt and rng.

If you spot the dichotomy above, you'll come to see that the affordance of choice can either be granted both to machines and humans, or none at all.



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