On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:06:57PM -0400, John Mikes wrote: > Russell: > you wrote (among many many others): > > *"...No free will = deterministic behaviour..." * > > I would not equal the two in my agnostic views. There are lots of (known as
Quite right. I should have written "No free will <= deterministic behaviour." (<= means "entailed by", not ≤). Nondeterministic systems needn't have free will. My point still stands, though. We were discussing the dynamical chaos Og was seeing, and Laplace's daemon, which operates in a deterministic setting. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/d/optout.
