Re: Scott Aronson on free will

2012-11-05 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:25:12 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 , meekerdb > wrote: > > >> John Clark should get a kick out of this: >>> >>> http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/ >>> >> > > In computer science, we deal all the time with processes that are >> neither

Re: Scott Aronson on free will

2012-10-31 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:25:06PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 , meekerdb wrote: > > >> John Clark should get a kick out of this: > >> > >> http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/ > >> > > > > In computer science, we deal all the time with processes that are > > neither determin

Re: Scott Aronson on free will

2012-10-31 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 , meekerdb wrote: >> John Clark should get a kick out of this: >> >> http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/ >> > > In computer science, we deal all the time with processes that are > neither deterministic nor random. > BULLSHIT! > An example is a nondeterministic finite auto

Re: Scott Aronson on free will

2012-10-30 Thread Stephen P. King
On 10/30/2012 2:46 AM, meekerdb wrote: John Clark should get a kick out of this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/ A Scientifically-Supportable Notion of Free Will In Only 6 Controversial Steps: The Looniest Talk I've Ever Given In My Life : S

Scott Aronson on free will

2012-10-29 Thread meekerdb
John Clark should get a kick out of this: http://www.scottaaronson.com/talks/ A Scientifically-Supportable Notion of Free Will In Only 6 Controversial Steps: The Looniest Talk I've Ever Given In My Life : Setting Time Aright (FQXi Conference), C