On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >> I can think of 2 definitions of "free will" that are not gibberish, >> although neither is useful: > > >> 1) It is the inability to know what you will decide to do next before you >> decide to do it. > > > > > Not to bad. > Thanks, of course a cuckoo clock has free will too, but never mind. > > > Useful? > No, but at least it's not gibberish. > > > If not try a perhaps better definition. > I seen lots of definitions of free will but all the others are either circular, self contradictory, or so vague it could mean anything. If philosophers never typed the letters "free will" again their field would be much improved. >> >> 2) It is a sequence of letters that lots of people on the internet like >> to type. > > > > > Unfortunately, there are many sequence of letters that people like to > type. So this definition is much to large, > I don't see why you say it's too large, one random sequence of letters is much like another, there is nothing special about the sequence "free will" that sets it apart from all the other gibberish. > > > and besides free-will, if it exist or not, like the unicorn, > Free will is not like a unicorn. A unicorn either exists or it doesn't, but that's not the case with "fluxnotwadelskrunk". Saying fluxnotwadelskrunk is untrue makes no more sense than saying fluxnotwadelskrunk is true, and it's the same with "free will", a phrase that is so bad it's not even wrong. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
