On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote: > Coercion is by persons, not by object or logical things... >
So if I were shipwrecked on a desert island then no matter how much I hated it there and wanted to get back home I would have complete and absolute free will, but if I ever did get back to my home in Manhattan I would have far less free will because then there would be millions of agents with the potential to interfere with my wishes. If I fall down a well and get stuck and nobody knows I'm there then I have free will, but if I live happily in even a very nice small town then I do not. Is that really what you mean by "free will"? > Free will is the ability to chose to do something > And there are only 2 possibilities, the choice was made for a reason or it was not. If it was it's deterministic if it's not it's random. > > everything you do is by your own *will* > So if I stay on the ground rather than fall through the crust to the Earth's center that happened not because of the Pauli Exclusion Principle but because I willed myself to stay on the surface. > the jury will have to see if the wrong you did was by your own choice or > not, if it was your own choice then it was free, you could have chosen > otherwise but you chose not to, nobody forced you. > And that is why the criminal justice system on every country on the planet is such a ridiculous illogical mess. 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
