On 2/14/2012 10:48 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 1Z <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
> Free Will is defined as "the power or ability to rationally choose
If its rational then there is a reason for it and thus it's deterministic.
Except that game theory shows that the rational strategy may be to make random
choices.
> and consciously perform actions, at least some of which are not brought
about
necessarily and inevitably by external circumstances.
So a hand calculator hooked up to a roulette wheel so that one time in 37 it gives the
wrong answer has free will.
I don't see that would count as an "ability to rationally choose" unless the calculator
was smart enough to understand game theory.
Brent
John K Clark
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