In article <19990101062740.21266.00001534 at ngol07.aol.com>,
tonyjeffs at aol.com (TONYJEFFS) wrote:
> >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
Yeah, most scientists do not believe in free will, since mechanistic
science depends on "determinism;" everything is determined by natural
laws. So the only way you could truly have free will is if you believed
there was something in humans that did not obey natural laws and therefore
could not be determined. So there is no real choice, unless you expect
that there are random unpredictable events.
So your decisions are a product of your prior learning, genetic makeup,
and current environmental conditions, not free will. Happy 99!
