Re: free will and mathematics

2012-06-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Jun 2012, at 19:02, R AM wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 13 Jun 2012, at 10:44, R AM wrote: I know that you and Bruno are compatibilists. I'm not attacking your notion of free will. I agree that free will is a social construct. I'm

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 19 Jun 2012, at 19:41, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Unlike the proton and neutron nobody has found any experimental evidence that the electron has a inner structure, that it is made of parts. The primitive matter I talk

Re: Autonomy?

2012-06-20 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: It's true that if you knew the numerical value of Chaitin's Constant then you would know that if a 100 bit program had not stopped after a Turing Machine had run n number of finite operations then it never will; but the