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From: brianp@shark.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Free Will. Free Lunch. Free Software.
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Date: Fri, 20-Jul-84 22:08:02 EDT
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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
+   Not really.  Christians seem to believe that god is omniscient (knows what
+   was/is/will be happening everywhere), yet they also make a claim for free
+   will, stating that it is your "choice" based on the actions you "choose"
+   whether you go to eternal bliss or eternal damnation.  I have yet to hear
+   a satisfactory explanation for this apparent contradiction.
This isn't a contradiction.  This means that god is just going to
sit there and let you fuck up, and then watch you burn in hell.

+   > Taking it a step further, we will know everything about every 
+   > organism, most
+   > importantly, the *exact* function of its brain. We would know more about
+   > that creature than it would know about itself. Continuing with the logic,
+   > The best argument against this theory is that there exists 'free will' in
+   > life forms. WHERE DID IT COME FROM? Did the physics of the universe form
+   > free will? I don't think so.
What if this critter is you?  You have to consider yourself 
(part of the family... :-) in your picture of the world.  Go talk to Godel.

Would a random number generator help in making free will?
Aren't there totally random events in physics?  Nuclei splitting, electrons
jumping through tunnel diodes,  the direction a newborn particle and its
anti go in (after subtracting motion of creator particles)? 

		Brian Peterson	{ucbvax, ihnp4, }  !tektronix!shark!brianp