The Mystery of Consciousness - by George Patterson Sibble

Is free will real?

I’ve long thought about an experiment that I wonder if we’ll ever be able to conduct. Say you were able to keep a brain and its associated nervous system intact and alive outside of the body. Then, you were able to control all input to that system and measure the state of every neuron in it. Given its state in any given moment and given the input about to go into it, could you determine the output? If you could, could you then map every state and every input and output? What I’m describing is what’s known as a finite state machine (FSM). It’s a very important concept because it says a FSM…

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