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Fruit Flies Show Spark of Free Will

Posted by samzenpus on from the sorry-about-all-those-bio-labs dept.

Lucas123 writes "A study performed at the Free University Berlin on human free will has produced some unexpected results showing that fruit flies may have a spark of free will in their tiny brains." From the article: "Their behavior seemed to match up with a mathematical algorithm called Levy's distribution ... 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."

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  1. Re:Damnation! by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Troll

    If they've got free will, does that mean they can go to heaven or hell?

          You're making a pretty big assumption there - assuming "heaven" and "hell" exist in the first place.

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  2. Re:Psuedo-science at best by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll

    More like biologists that took a few too many liberal arts classes.

    I don't know if it is the MSNBC write up or the "experiment" itself, but this has got to be the most vacuous thing I've ever read.

    And you are who exactly? What papers have you published lately? Either put up or shut up. Really now, if you were a prominent expert in this field, WTF are you doing posting on slashdot? Get back to work.
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