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It is possible to "understand" things without free will. An intelligent agent will try to understand the world around them (in some fashion, such as an internal representation and whatever inferences can be derived from it) in order to decide how to act in this world.
Here I'm assuming that the AI is not just a computer without senses just sitting on a desk, but an AI like a robot that has sensory inputs from which it derives a perception of the world around it (such as an internal representation consisting of images, touch, schematics, spoken sentences, etc.), from which it can make decisions about what kind of actions to undertake.
Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 16/09/2024 at 04:37 UTC
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It is possible to "understand" things without free will. An intelligent agent will try to understand the world around them (in some fashion, such as an internal representation and whatever inferences can be derived from it) in order to decide how to act in this world.
I doubt learning can occur without some free will so I don't think understanding will occur without learning.