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- From: minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
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- Subject: Re: In Job, Lucifer was proved right!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.171819.1050@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:18:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan2.014956.6474@eskimo.com> alpinist@eskimo.com (David Butler) writes:
- >
- >I can look at my past and see exactly what choices I made. I know with
- >certainty what I have already done. Does that mean I did not have free
- >will at the time? If the past can be fixed and free will still exist,
- >then why would free will not exist just because the future is fixed?
- >Or in other words, if I know what choices I already made and had free
- >will at the time - couldn't the choices I will make be known and still
- >be the result of free will?
-
- Sure -- if you accept the idea that decisions seem 'free' simply when
- your conscious mind lacks access to the other mind-parts that made
- those decisions.
-