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your position on free will (that it exists) very off putting for many, and I personally find it to be the weakest pillar of your philosophy. with your background in computer science, surely you understand the arguments against it? how it can be replaced with a random number generator?
you've never really defined free will properly (in terms of Turing machines) either... just some hand waving about self determination, which has nothing to do with complexity classes or decision problems (the things we normally define machines in terms of).
can your philosophy stand without free will?
If computers can't mimic the human brain, what makes you think the human brain resembles, in every regard, computers? Not Stefan but am curious why you think that or if that's really what you think.
mathamarically, you are a computer (Turing machine), and made of the same exact stuff physically (atoms). the distinction between human and iPhone is rather arbitrary when it comes to the mathematics behind it, math which you study in computer science. you will find that the only difference seems to be the way you arrange the atoms.
further, if you gave an iPhone free will, would it be a hardware or software change? that sort of thing is what we would explore in computer science: defining a machine will free will and one without, then comparing what problems they can solve and and how they solve them.
what does free will allow you to do that an iPhone can't? if you say "experience feelings", keep in mind that it's possible that every atom in the universe may feel something, even if it's just a constant "purpleness" or "sweetness". look up what "qualia" is on Wikipedia, very interesting stuff.
though this is all just on another level... I wouldn't expect the average person to get it.
I didn't downvote you. Don't agree but upvoted for the explanation.