Conscious Robots (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Conscious Robots is a book exploring hard determinism written by Paul Kwatz and published in 2005. Kwatz argues that the illusion of free will can be dispelled by considering our personal experience and scientific knowledge. The book intertwines three factors to reach its conclusion. Evidence from the biochemical and neurological composition of the brain; Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection; and our ability to learn through emotional feedback. This emotional feedback creates a hard-wired decision making scheme of pleasure and pain responses which can be likened, Kwatz contends, to a computer program. Drawing on all of these examples Kwatz concludes that free will must be an illusion.