大数据世界中的自由意志

Free Will in the Background of Big Data

大数据技术本身所带来的对人类生活方式、行为习惯、喜好倾向的深度了解并没有从本质上挑战自由意志的存在。自由意志更重要的意义在社会责任层面,也就是作为第一人称面向的对社会的理解,而非第三人称的基础生理层面。但是大数据技术所代表的以数据为中心的理性主义却使得个人更容易主动让渡自己的自由意志。在这样的情形下,自由意志的空间变得更加狭窄,但绝非取消了。

The deep exploration of human life style,behavior habit and preference by big data hasn′t really challenged the concept of free will.The significance of free is located in the level of social responsibility,that is,the understanding of society from the perspective of the first person,rather than the description of basic biological level from the perspective of the third person.However,big data,as a typical representative of the data-centric rationalism,lures individuals to alienate his own free will.The space of the concept of free will becomes narrow,but not vanish.