Re: Free Will

John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:34:26 -0400

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>>Me:
>>Free Will is the inability to always know what you will do next,
>>and not know when you'll not know, even in an unchanging environment.

>Brent Allsop <allsop@fc.hp.com>
>This seems like a completely worthless definition of free will to me.

You are quite correct. If you use my definition then the value of free will in figuring out how the universe works is precisely zero. That's still a huge improvement however, all other ideas about free will just cause confusion and thus have a large negative value.

John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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