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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Subject: Re: Causes and Goals (was re: The Systems Reply I
References: <1992Mar16.003442.9891@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Mar15.233805.3026@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Mar17.085639.9836@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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In article <1992Mar17.085639.9836@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas) writes:
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>In article <1992Mar15.233805.3026@hellgate.utah.edu> tolman%asylum.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:
>>
>>  Lets look at the world as having some things which are considered to
>>have volition.  What does this really mean?  It is operating on its own,
>>of its own intent. It is operating OUTSIDE THE FRAMEWORK of external
>>things, it is operating on its own.
>
>Do you mean that such things do not obey to ANY laws?
>That they are not deterministic? That they are random?
>
  I am not sure what Tolman's response would be.  However, I am not
certain that they would be free from ANY laws; hence, they are not
perfectly deterministic.  Further randomity denies volition; therefore,
they are not random.

>
>Philip Santas
>

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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