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Could it be that the arguments for/against Free Will (whatever it
is) may be causing problems because of the attempt to produce
bivalency where there is none. 

Lots of things without instruments and measurements are bivalent:
close-far, hot-cold, fast-slow, early-late, tall-short, fat-thin,
intelligent-stupid.... lots more..

Maybe if the problem were cast into a form in which we'd have
gradations the problem wouldn't exist at all.

How can one know that they do [or don't] do what they do [or don't]
because they really want to and not because they were
trained/educated/brainwashed/socialized to do [or not do] such a thing.

How do I know that I come to work not because I want to and not because
I was trained/taught over a long period of time that I should work.


Similar problems show up when we try discuss things like why we are
the way we are; is it society that makes criminals or are they born,
etc etc.

The problem is that they are both true. Society makes criminals and
criminals also affect society.   Same problems are handled in
economics as in sociology.

A few years ago, I made up a model along these lines. It doesn't
do anything more than provide a mathematical model in which at
least the problems can be seen at least in one perspective [mine].

It can be found in:

"Psycho-socio-economic Evolution of Human Systems", Mathematical Modelling 
and  Scientific Computing in Science and Technology , Ed( X.J.R. Avula), 
Vol.2, pp. 320-325,1993  Principia Scientia, St. Louis.Madison



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						-- Mark---
....we must realize that the infinite in the sense of an infinite totality, 
where we still find it used in deductive methods, is an illusion. Hilbert,1925
