On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 01:20:44PM +1200, LizR wrote: > On 14 May 2015 at 12:01, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:46:49PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 Russell Standish <[email protected]> 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 [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.
