On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:20:44PM +1200, LizR wrote: > On 14 May 2015 at 12:01, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:46:49PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > > > > > Free will is the ability to do something stupid. Nonrational. > > > > > > > > > > OK fine free will is non-rational, in other words an event performed for > > NO > > > REASON, in other words an event without a cause, in other words random. > > So > > > a radioactive atom has free will when it decays. > > > > A radioactive atom isn't a person, consequently does not have > > will. At least not when I last checked. > > > > But a person choosing what to do as a result of an atom decaying does have > free will, I assume? (Perhaps the atom was inside their brain, and its > decay just happened to tip the balance of brain chemicals enough that the > final decision was in favour of tea rather than coffee... or perhaps the > person decided to decide which drink to have on the basis of a reading from > a Geiger counter... either way, in this particular case human FW puts them > in a bit of a Schroedinger's cat siutation...) >
Yes. Exactly. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/d/optout.
