On 17 Jan 2014, at 17:57, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I give a coherent definition of free will in my book on Reality.
Free will is simply the fact that some bounded system generates
actions that are not entirely determined by its environmental inputs.
OK, then the term "free will" is synonymous with the word "random".
But there is no great mystery in how that came about and it doesn't
matter if brain
microtubules vibrate or not; as I've said more than once I know of
no law of logic that demands that every event have a cause. A
deeper question than "why are some things random?" would be "why
isn't everything random?".
Yes, that is the deep question, that we can translate in mathematics
with comp. A short answer is roughly that consciousness supervene on
computations + randomness (by the FPI).
Bruno
John K Clark
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