I will exercise my *insert gibberish here* by disagreeing. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > while you do not *always* know what you're going to do, you know your >> preferences most of the time. >> > > And Turing proved that some of the time a computer can tell if it will > eventually stop or not, but not all of the time. > > > The feeling of 'free will' comes from the inability retrospectively to >> see all the causes; so that, out of ignorance, it seems that one could have >> done otherwise. >> > > Yes, and unlike other definitions of "free will" this one is not > gibberish, however when you boil it down all it's really saying is you > don't know what you don't know. The highest status the philosophical > "concept" called "free will" can aspire to is that of being right but > trivially circular, most of the time it's not even that, most of the time > it's just gibberish. > > John K Clark > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
