Free will and consciousness - What are they?

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Rick Beato breaks down AI's intrusion into music.
All hail the mighty Beato!!! I love Rick! I have an idea for why quantized music sounds 'artificial'. I believe it's rooted in how our auditory system processes soundwaves. We are no doubt hardwired to perceive differences in sound, both pitch, amplitude and meter. That would have survival advantages for both predators stalking prey, as well as becoming aware of potential threats. That's why music that isn't heavily quantized sound organic, since the musicians are always speeding up and slowing down, not to mention that's why playing 'off the beat' sounds so dynamic and exciting. Rick showed that even bands as tight as The Police when in the studio where also speeding up and slowing down, since it's impossible to keep perfect time, at least for humans. When you listen to heavily quantized music it sounds artificial, it doesn't sound organic, since our audio system evolved out of nature, not the sterile, quantized world of computer generated sound.
 
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Free will is a concept, not a thing. That concept doesn't own a piece of consciousness just because we hung two words together.

Consciousness is whatever we decide it is. It doesn't need to stop at the borders of whatever we feel like it is. If some parts of consciousness happen without leaving a record in the experiential part of our brains, what makes that not-conscious? That's like saying we are actually blind because we don't have conscious control over how the retina processes images.
So, you're saying that free will is only a concept, not a 'thing'. Then we're in agreement. Case closed ..
 
"Free will" is how Grimsby knocked Southampton out of the FA cup. Suck on that, Sam Harris, and UTM!
 

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