Towards Implementing Free-Will

Bruce Edmonds
Centre for Policy Modelling,
Manchester Metropolitan University,
Aytoun Building, Aytoun Street, Manchester, M1 3GH, UK.
http://bruce.edmonds.name
"Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin" John von Neuman*1
Contents
Abstract
1 - Introduction
2 - Conceptions of free-will
3 - Evolving free-will in a brain
4 - Open-ended strategy evolution
5 - Meta-evolution
6 - Anticipatory rationality
7 - Co-evolution
8 - Structuring the development of free-will within a society of peers
9 - Putting it all together
10 - Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Philosophical appendix
References

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