Hi Tony. The Universe is deterministic, but for Free Will to be
determined, one would have to, simultaneously, know the "state" of every
"atom" in the Uinverse, and be able to calculate the entirety of such
with respect to any Choice.
Since this calculation is impossible (along with the knowing), Free Will
is Physically Real, and so is the necessity of Choice.
The only thing that enters, significantly, into the question of Free
Will's existence is that the accuracy inherent in Choice is a function
of information-processing work performed. To the degree that one is
willing to do such information-processing work, one's will is free.
Juxtapose this against the commonplace notion of "freedom"... "being
unencumbered". Such is not "freedom" at all. Such is, through Choice,
the transforming of one's self into a thing analogous to a die in a crap
shoot, and, thereafter, accepting whatever consequences follow.
Such isn't Freedom. Freedom exists in being able to Choose one's course
through Physical Reality. Information-processing work is the cost of
Freedom.
Folks who adhere to the prevailing notion of "freedom" have, for many
years, been endeavoring to prevent the coming forward of NDT's
understanding because it levels the playing field of behavioral
manifestations. These folks don't like the proposition that, if one is
willing to work, one can achieve anything one Chooses to achieve. These
folks experience NDT's understanding as a mechanism that will "delimit"
their "freedom". But there's nothing in such. The folks're just those
"dice" in the old, Familiar, crap shoot... they have no Freedom to
"delimit".
All the hubbub re. Free Will's existence stems from these dynamics, in
which folks've resorted to tacit agreement that "the boat shall not be
rocked"...
...no one had realized that confining one's self, and whole societies,
to "a boat", under penalty of ostracization, is the most awesomely
Delimiting possible "approach" to Life. ken collins
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