I personally dont believe free will, just think about that, how human, including you and I, are affected by the environment around us, friends, family, social media, or even the nature of where we live. I start thinking about this when I got into college because I noticed something, which is, the reason of every decisions we made seems can be summarized in egoism, even for altruistic behaviors.

Egoism, or to be specific, Descriptive Egoism, suggest that all human decisions are motivated by peoples own desires and interest. If a parent know their children will never rebate them, only knows how to cause trouble, owe lots of debt in the future, and even abuse them, will they will love their children? If you want when you help a poor guy, that guy will not be grateful, and also blackmail you, will you still help him? I wont say all people, but I sure most of people wont.

To me, desires and interest can be simplified to so call happiness. All human decisions are motivated by happiness, human always trying to do things they think can gain more happiness (positive), or at least less suffer (negative). Lets call the value for happiness (H), do happy things will give positive H value, and will have negative H value when suffering. Human will do things that maximum the H value. As a computer science student back then, I immediately noticed that is exactly reinforcement learning. Is human just a super large reinforcement learning model? To find the answer, I signed up for a neuroscience course.

To me, desires and interest can be simplified to so call happiness. All human decisions are motivated by happiness, human always trying to do things they think can gain more happiness (positive), or at least less suffer (negative). Lets call the value for happiness (H), do happy things will give positive H value, and will have negative H value when suffering. Human will do things that maximum the H value. As a computer science student back then, I immediately noticed that is exactly reinforcement learning. Is human just a super large reinforcement learning model? To find the answer, I signed up for a neuroscience course.