On Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:41:27 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Craig Weinberg > <whats...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > > > So all "free will" means is that sometimes we can make correct >> predictions about what we will do before we do it, >> >
That's what you say, not me. I guess now you are trying your hand at putting words in my mouth and agreeing with your own positions. > > Then a Turing Machine has free will because it can correctly predict > No, prediction has nothing to do with free will. Intention is not a passive knowledge or belief that is true in the future, it is the active power to change aspects of public reality to suit your preference. > that it will list all the factors of 128 and then stop, and it can > correctly it will never list all the prime numbers and then stop. The > Turing machine doesn't know if it will ever print out the smallest even > number greater than 4 is not the sum of two primes greater than 2 because > neither it nor we currently have a proof to show its true or a > counterexample to show its false. > If a Turing machine had free will, then it would decide what it would list and what it wouldn't. Craig > > John K Clark > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
