On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:52:52PM -0400, Rex Allen wrote:
>
> So how does this prove what I said false? All those static "futures"
> are mine. They're all determined. I'm still on rails...it's just
> that the rails split in a rather unintuitive way.
When you use the imagery of "rails", there is no splitting involved -
just a single track going forward. Otherwise there's no point in
having rails.
But it's your analogy, I suppose you're entitled to Humpty Dumpty's defense
("the words mean exactly what I choose them to mean").
>
> Even if we say that what constitutes "me" is a single unbranched
> path...this still doesn't make what I said false. I'm one of those
> paths, I just don't know which. But ignorance of the future is not
> indeterminism. Ignorance of the future is ignorance of the (fully
> determined)
> future.
It is not ignorance, but true indeterminism. Perhaps you haven't
understood the full import yet.
>
> Rex
>
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