Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!nott-cs!ucl-cs!Robert
From: Robert@ucl-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: [David E Demers: Re: free will]
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Date: 13 Jul 89 13:18:26 GMT
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The map x -> c*x*(1-x) is the logistic map, but by a transformation of co
coordinates x == y + 1/2 followed by a rescaling of y it can be put into
the form x -> x*x + c (with a different value for teh c in this equation).
Thus the two maps are really equivalent.

This map, x -> x*x + c, can be used to generate the Mandelbrot set, by 
looking at the COMPLEX values of c for which the map converges.  More than
a simple bifurcation behaviour in obtained from keeping c real.

Is `free will' any different from `will'? The discussion about `free will' 
and `determinism' may become clarified by developing the distinction
between 'free will' and `will'. Or then again it may not, whichever
the case may be.

Robert.