Re: Sentience

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 18:57:59 MST


John Clark wrote:

> Dan Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> Wrote:
>
> > Everything is either deterministic or random.
>
> True.
>
> >Neither of these, nor any composition of the two, constitute free will.
>

> Depends on what is meant by the term. I would define it as the
> inability of me to know what I will do next before I actually do it,
> by that definition I do have free will.

I might quibble and say that it's inability to know what you want
before you decide to do it. This quibble says the same thing in a
more plausible way.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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