Can we sensibly attribute some of the happenings in our world to the agency of some of the things around us? We do this all the time, but there are conceptual challenges purporting to show that attributable agency, and specifically one of its most important subspecies, human free agency, is incoherent. We address these challenges in a novel way: rather than merely rebutting specific arguments, we discuss a concrete model that we claim positively illustrates attributable agency in an indeterministic setting. The model, recently introduced by one of the authors in the context of artificial intelligence, shows that an agent with a sufficiently complex memory organization can employ indeterministic happenings in a meaningful way. We claim that these considerations successfully counter arguments against the coherence of libertarian (indeterminism-based) free will.

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归属代理的机会

我们能否明智地将世界上发生的某些事情归因于我们周围某些事物的作用？我们一直这样做，但存在一些概念上的挑战，声称可归因代理，特别是其最重要的亚种之一，人类自由代理，是不连贯的。我们以一种新颖的方式应对这些挑战：我们讨论的不仅仅是反驳特定论点，而是讨论了一个具体模型，我们声称该模型积极说明了不确定性环境中的可归因代理。该模型最近由一位作者在人工智能背景下引入，表明具有足够复杂的记忆组织的代理可以以有意义的方式利用不确定性事件。