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From: berger@aecom.UUCP (Mitchell Berger)
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Subject: Will someone defign "will" willingly?
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 12:43:12 EST
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> >Well, maybe free will is a product of the quantum uncertainty of
> >our neurons firing.
> 
> I think the biggest problem with thinking of free will this way is that
> you have no argument that there is an agent that *controls* these quantum
> events, thus the "will" in "free will" is void.  

Just one question. I assume we are all defigning free as "without any external
cause". How would you defign "will"? 

			michab
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