Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!aiva!jeff
From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will and Self-Awareness
Message-ID: <433@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 12 May 88 19:23:52 GMT
References: <8805091739.AA27922@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <8805091739.AA27922@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> eyal@COYOTE.STANFORD.EDU (Eyal Mozes) writes:
   I didn't see anything in Shani's message that looks like it's based on
   Ayn Rand (she certainly wasn't the only philosopher to oppose
   self-contradiction),

She overuses the notion.

   but I do agree with Jeff that Ayn Rand's writings
   can shed light on the free will issue.

Actually, you don't agree with me, because that's not what I think.

I don't really want to get involved in this and can now see that I
should not have brought it up.