On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 07:06:48PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 18 January 2014 18:49, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au 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 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.
