On 5 October 2013 06:53, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: He comes to this because he's *defined* "Knightian uncertainty" as radical > unpredictability without randomness. >
I don't see why it doesn't entail randomness, especially if it comes from quantum fluctuations during the big bang. But even if it doesn't, it still doesn't seem to me to lead to "free will worth having". The cosmic background radiation seems more likely to have it (if anything does) than humans, the latter being made of atoms that have been knocking around on Earth for billions of years amd surely losing any correlation with "initial uncertainty" in the process. So does the CMB have more free will than we do? > > I agree that doesn't seem very significant, e.g. in terms of public policy > for example. Nietzsche says "free will" is an invention of the priestly > class in order to justify judgement, guilt, and punishment - all social > tools. > Good point! I tend to agree with Neitzsche on that one (would you Adam and Eve it? :) -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
