On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 07:06:48PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 18 January 2014 18:49, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 1/17/2014 7:33 PM, LizR wrote: > > > > Surprisingly, perhaps, such acts sometimes deliver payoffs to the actor. > >> > > > > Yes, for example, in cases where doing something is better than doing > > nothing. > > > > > > Or where it's important that your action not be predictable. > > > > Poker anyone? > > > > Yeah, that's the "Machiavellian intelligence" bit. > > So much for free will, except as a synonym for instinct, unconscious urges > and rational unpredictability. >
That's exactly how I use the term "free will". What other possible meanings might it have? BTW did you mean irrational unpredicatibility? Rational unpredictability is an oxymoron. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
