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minds and brains

TONYJEFFS tonyjeffs at aol.com
Fri Jan 1 06:27:40 EST 1999



>I do not believe in free will but I do believe in choice. If one does not
believe
>in choice one's whole life is a lie.
I don't understand what you mean. Without free will, choice becomes a simple
gate function with a predictable outcome. Not much of a choice.
My PC has choice, perhaps.  I press a key, and the computer chooses to
reproduce the letter represented by the keypress.
If I put it under pressure by running too many big programs at once, it may
choose to crash.  But this is a mathematically calculable choice depending upon
how much memory it requires and has available.  

Choice without free will seems like no choice at all.


Happy 99
Best wishes
Tony






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