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>>9046850
Object identification is contained in various places in the brain, organized mainly by the hippocampus.

But even in the simplest programs, decisions still have to be made. If you, for instance, run the pseudocode:

>let x=1
>if ( x == 1 ) goto report:
>echo "Yarblewargle!"
>end
>report:
>echo "Yup, x is 1."
>end
(Okay, that's shit pseudocode but you get the idea.)

The check and the decision to "goto end:" based on the observation that x==1 still has to be made, predetermined or not.

The system maybe predetermined, but the decision still has to be made - indeed, if it is not made, the system breaks, and you end up with "Yarblewargle!"

Now, we can look at this from the outside and realize that, as X=1, this code is indeed going to execute the same way every time, in much the same way that the brain, exposed to the same inputs with the same memories, is going to make the same decision every time.

But the interpreter, much like our consciousness, still has to handle each event, one at a time, in order to function. It still must make that decision and never sees the alternate result.

A programmer or even a compiler, might see the alternate result, but there is no conscious analog for such a thing in reality. The only creatures of perception are those of limited perception. They are limited to a temporal existence, and experience events in order, being incapable of analyzing all possible outcomes of complex events or even those of their own decision making process. Thus all physically possible beings of perception have free will from their own perspective, and, even if made aware of the fact that their decisions are ultimately unavoidable, can't help but continue to make them based on that limited perception.

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