Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!voder!berlioz!andrew From: andrew@berlioz (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head ) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: [David E Demers: Re: free will] Summary: gobbledegook Message-ID: <425@berlioz.nsc.com> Date: 15 Jul 89 03:42:28 GMT References: <334@ucl-cs.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 20 In article <334@ucl-cs.UUCP>, Robert@ucl-cs.UUCP writes: > 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. I coincidentally just caught a line from the group "Yes" (I think) which goes: "Then I will choose free will". While I am not suggesting that pop contains any deep truisms (or not), when I heard this I wondered a) if he >has< free will, then the choice is specious b) else, how can he choose? Just a little light relief from -- ................................................................... Andrew Palfreyman I should have been a pair of ragged claws nsc!berlioz!andrew Scuttling across the floors of silent seas ...................................................................