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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
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Subject: Re: Re, Re, Re, Rosen on Reason, Cha Cha Cha!
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 03:46:09 EST
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`Free will' is one of my favorite subjects, but most people
don't take me seriously.  Yes, I believe that there is no
free will.  But I am also a reasonably moral person, I fret
about decisions like everyone else, and I judge people by
the way they act -- all just as those believe free will
exists.

I *act* as though I had free will, even though I know it
does not exist!  Why?  Because it doesn't matter what I think
of reality; reality goes marching on whether I believe it or
not.

I would like, for this discussion, merely to make clear to
you how I think of `free will', how one who does not belive
he has free will acts, rather than to "prove" myself
correct -- if you are interested in pursuing this subject with
me.  


Gordon
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