> > > You cannot say you meditate on choices and make decisions and then in > the next breath say that we are deterministic. > Why the hell not?!
> > Either we are programs – in which case given a knowledge of our > algorithms our behavior and outcomes should be predictable based on a > knowledge of some input state > The exact same stupid philosophical errors are being made over and over on this list. Being deterministic is not the same as being predictable. A computer program is deterministic but you have no way of knowing what the output of the program will be until the machine has finished its processing. 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.
