On 13 May 2015, at 19:46, John Clark wrote:
The only other meaning of "free will" that I know of that isn't gibberish is the inability to always know what we will do next before we do it even in an unchanging environment,
That is, roughly, the "modern" definition, which is neutral on the origin of the non-knowledgeability. But with computationalism, it can be shown that it is a Turing-Gödel like non determinacy, and note the comp FPI, nor the quantum FPI.
but almost nobody uses that meaning
There are so much people who use that meaning, that it has a name: the compatibilistic theory of free will (compatible with string determinacy).
so all that remains is the sound that chunks of meat make when they flap together.
Two mistakes here. Even if only one person grasp something, it does not mean it is uninteresting (if not, all new discoveries would be abandoned at the start). Then it is just false that few people uses that definition, in this list, and out of this list.
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