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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: Comments on Free Will, and how it works.
Keywords: The Lady or the Tiger?
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Date: 12 Dec 88 23:57:05 GMT
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In article <215@edai.ed.ac.uk> cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) writes:

 > Anyone who supposes that exercise of their free-will must depend
 > upon some essentially unpredictable (random) component is clearly
 > suffering from a shortage of good reasons for doing things, no?

I define Free Will as the capacity to make and enact choices consistent
with my knowledge and values.  It is only when my value system is
teetering on the razor's edge between two choices that I turn to my
random number generator to resolve the choice and get on with my life.

--Barry Kort