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In article <1032@klipper.cs.vu.nl> biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux) writes:
>Warning: this is long!     Question to Muslims at the end (but they should
>				read the rest first before answering).
>
>In several newsgroups there are (independent) discussions on the nature
>of free will. It seems natural to merge these. Since these discussions
>mostly turn around physical, logical or mathematical notions, the natural
>place for this discussion seems to be  sci.philosophy.tech  (which newsgroup
>is devoted to technical philosophy, i.e. logic, philosophical mathematics
>(like intuitionism, formalism, etc.), philosophical physics (the time
>problem, interpretations of quantum mechanics, etc) and the like).
>Here follows a bit of the discussion in sci.math, plus some of my
>comments.
>
   Merging a subject is a nice idea... but perhaps, instead of effectively
continuing the subject of NINE newsgroups, maybe you could just post
a little note to folks about where to continue the discussion?  In other
words, if you want to merge it, actually merge it!  All this free will
discussion has been cluttering up so many newsgroups, its becoming a
real pain, instead of an interesting topic.

  I agree... sci.philosophy.tech sounds like a good group for this
discussion.  Maybe the USENET folks out there would like to start
focusing the talk in that group.  Its getting to the point where people
are posting messages to justify why they are continually posting into
places like comp.ai.

   Who knows, if there is enuf interest, we could start a new
newsgroup.  How about sci.philosophy.free  ?   :-)


   Ok, flame off.  Ciao!


          Reid
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