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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will & Self-Awareness
Message-ID: <402@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 May 88 19:35:39 GMT
References: <4134@super.upenn.edu> <3200014@uiucdcsm> <1484@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <717@taurus.BITNET>
Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <717@taurus.BITNET> <shani%TAURUS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
writes: 
- you are underastimating yourself as a free-willing
- creature, and second, your request is self-contradicting ans shows
- litle understanding of matters, like free will and value systems -
- such things cannot be 'given', they simply exist.

Is this an Ayn Rand point?  It sure sounds like one.  Note the use
of `self-contradicting'.

- You can write 'moral' programs, even in BASIC, if you want,
- because they will have YOUR value system....

It is hard to see how this makes any sense whatsoever.