So robots simply act on the their programmes and parameters right just as humans do?I'm not sure I understand your question. I regard us as sophisticated robots but, as I have already said. I cannot prove it. Whether our will is free or not , we are going to feel that our unconstrained actions are free.
If you accept that the universe seems to operate on the basis of cause and effect, why should we be exempt ?
This is why I am asking do you think human exibit formulaic signs? IOW they are predictable. You apply a new set of rules to society and you can pretty much theroetically predict the outcome.
You haven't watched the Matrix, man you don't know what you're missing.I know nothing about the matrix , so I shall have to pass on that one.
We are programmed in the sense that we are hard wired by our genes in some way. We are then exposed to our environment to which we react in a personal way. From then on , it's a process of action and reaction.
I do not believe we are pre-programmed in the sense that it has been decided what I shall have for lunch tomorrow because that will depend on the environment and how I react to it at that particular time. I cannot control that in advance.
That is odd because it's the other way round with me IOW the environment reacts to me, which for me means I am more of a programmer rather than the programmed.
Maybe the detail of what you may eat tommorow is not of universal consequence, but that's not saying that major aspects and forks in the path of your life have not already been predetermined.
You may or may not find this interesting but I happen to remember my previous lifetime. Just after dying and entering my current body I was given the choice of 'viewing' aspects of my current lifetime. This is why I have so many deja vu's. In this example my life had already been mapped out so you could argue that I had no choice in life but to carry out my own destiny. IOW the choices have already been made by myself and the collective.