And among other things, I think it’s at the center of the phenomenon of free will. That there can be a kind of irreducible distance between underlying deterministic laws, and overall observed behavior. So that the overall behavior can appear free of the determinism of the underlying laws. Let me not get sidetracked onto this now. But suffice it to say that I think there is perfectly good free will in lots of computational systems; it’s certainly not a special human feature.
