[Ham} > The best known argument against Free Will was formulated in the > 19th century by Simon Laplace, who proposed that if there existed > a mind that knew, to the minutest detail, everything about every particle > in the universe at any given point, then that mind would also be able > to predict, with absolute accuracy, what would happen in the future. > Given the knowledge of all that is, we would know all that could ever be. > It thus follows that the entire course of the universe was laid out at its inception. > There is, in this, no room for a free will. > But this argument is flawed, whatever the calculation used to support it. > For even if it were theoretically possible to know in advance what you will do tomorrow, > you would then have no free will.
I'm not seeing the flaw in the argument. It is "The best known argument against Free Will", so of course, it has the consequence that there is no free will. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
