A robot car’s code does not force it to do anything. What the code does is what the robot does. As for top-down causation, if things that are made of parts exist, top-down causation exists. It is not separate from bottom-up causation; it is the same thing.
A robot car’s code does not force it to do anything. What the code does is what the robot does. As for top-down causation, if things that are made of parts exist, top-down causation exists. It is not separate from bottom-up causation; it is the same thing.