Bryon wrote:
<< Maybe I'm wrong, but as I see it, the question is whether everything a person does, are all choices made purely a function of his biology, society, environment, etc, or is it real choice? Are we more than the sum of our inputs?
I think that while it's possible (probable?) that we are the sum of our inputs, those inputs are so complex that it doesn't matter. In other words, while you might be able to predict what a person might do in any given situation, the computation would be extremely complex and subject to change in the time it would take to compute it - even if that computation was nearly instantaneous.
So, IMO, while we might not have _pure_ free will, what we do have is virtually indistinguishable from it.
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