Le 12-avr.-05, à 05:26, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
And does it really make much difference, whether we are talking truly
random or intractably pseudo-random?
You may be interested to know that the class
of problems soluble by machine with
pseudo-random oracle is properly contained
in the
Norman Samish wrote:
I have somewhat arbitrarily defined free will as voluntary
actions that are both self-determined by a Self-Aware
Object, and are not predictable.
My reasoning is that if something is completely predictable,
then there is no option for change, hence no free will.
But
[Forwarded to the list on behalf of Quentin Anciaux]
From: Quentin Anciaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stathis Papaioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Free Will Theorem
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:53:55 +0200
Le lundi 11 avril 2005 Ã 22:41 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou a
Quentin Anciaux wrote:
Le lundi 11 avril 2005 à 22:41 +1000, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
We would then still believe that we had free will
, even though in reality we are all blindly following a predetermined
script. How could we possibly know that this is not what is in fact
happening?
Stathis, thanks for your reply, but my two points in return are:
1. to the list-appearance remark: I did not miss the 'responses', I missed
the list-mail CONTAINIG my post. Whether there is a response is of course up
to the (non?)respondents. I don't require such.
2. in the thread: I wonder if
The question of free will has generated an enormous
amount of philosophical literature. I'd suggest reading
at least the first part of this page on Compatibilism,
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/. Compatibilism is the
doctrine that free will is compatible with determinism.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 09:45:49AM -0700, Hal Finney wrote:
The question of free will has generated an enormous
amount of philosophical literature. I'd suggest reading
at least the first part of this page on Compatibilism,
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/. Compatibilism is
I would like to ask how decoherered branches of the multiverse can merge -
it must be possible as in a consistent histories approach but how is it
accounted for in the formalism of QM
Puzzled
Nick P
8 matches
Mail list logo
