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From: peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence
Summary: Comments on Free Will, and how it works.
Message-ID: <532@soleil.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 19:23:32 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Somerville, NJ
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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?

In article <42939@linus.UUCP> (Barry W. Kort) writes:

>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.

Sometimes I think my brain is a chunk of clay.  Incoming reality molds and
defines my knowledge and values.  Sometimes I wonder whether I or anyone else
has Free Will at all.  Just think, if the universe is deterministic, at the
time of the Big-Bang, you could have predicted this article and the exact
words used.

Remember when a person could get a 30 year fixed rate mortgage at 7%.

Cigarette smoke is toxic waste, do you have a choice?