Can free will exist if the future is known in advance? The world’s most powerful spy software company is launching a tool that can use phones to alert police of future crimes.
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Phone that predicts crimes before they happen
Can free will exist if the future is known in advance? The world's most powerful spy software company is launching a tool that can use phones to alert police of future crimes.
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Can free will exist if the future is known in advance?
Yes: Knowing the future is not the same as deciding it. It is like reading a preview of a TV series: what happens in it is determined by scriptwriters who could have chosen many different outcomes.
No: The future can only be known in advance if our destinies have been mapped out for us and there is nothing we can do to change them. That is by definition incompatible with free will.
Or... No one can ever really know what will happen in the future. Maestro is based on not knowing - it only alerts the police when an event takes place that it did not predict.
Keywords
Pegasus - In classical mythology, Pegasus was a winged horse.
Ronan Farrow - The son of the actress Mia Farrow, he is best known for writing about the film producer Harvey Weinstein and his abuse of women.
Maestro - An Italian word meaning master or teacher. It is most commonly used to describe orchestra conductors.
Philip K Dick - An American science-fiction writer best known for his story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was the basis of the film Blade Runner. He wrote The Minority Report in 1956.
Phone that predicts crimes before they happen
Glossary
Pegasus - In classical mythology, Pegasus was a winged horse.
Ronan Farrow - The son of the actress Mia Farrow, he is best known for writing about the film producer Harvey Weinstein and his abuse of women.
Maestro - An Italian word meaning master or teacher. It is most commonly used to describe orchestra conductors.
Philip K Dick - An American science-fiction writer best known for his story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was the basis of the film Blade Runner. He wrote The Minority Report in 1956.