Free-will discussions usually center around a struggle to reconcile our goal-oriented decision-making behavior with the laws of physics: if you’re choosing between the following two explanations for what you did, then which one is correct: “I asked her on a date because I really liked her” or “My particles made me do it by moving according to the laws of physics”? But we saw in the last chapter that both are correct: what feels like goal-oriented behavior can emerge from goal-less deterministic laws of physics. More specifically, when a system (brain or AI) makes a decision of
