05.16.07

Fruit flies and free will

Posted in Evolution at 3:14 pm by nemo

Study hints that fruit flies have free will

Findings could shed light on human choices, neurobiologist says

Although this research is undoubtedly of great interest, the wrong assumptions in the thinking here are close to ludicrous, let scientists live and learn.
They are proposing the ‘causality of free will’, with assumptions of Darwinian evolution behind this…
Keep on trucking.

By Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience

Updated: 6:59 p.m. CT May 15, 2007
A spark of free will may exist in even the tiny brain of the humble fruit fly, based on new findings that could shed light on the nature and evolution of free will in humans.

Future research delving further into free will could lead to more advanced robots, scientists added. The result, joked neurobiologist Björn Brembs from the Free University Berlin, could be “world robot domination.”

“Seriously though,” Brembs said that programming robots with aspects of free will “may lead to more realistic and probably even more efficient behavior, which could be decisive in truly autonomous robots needed for planetary exploration.”