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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Almost unrelated by now to Minsky's new article
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In article <3d3n9s$2gd@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de>,
Harald Treder <htreder@informatik.uni-rostock.de> wrote:
>Telford Tendys (telford@threetek.dialix.oz.au) wrote:
>
>: Tell me Steve, what would the universe be like if free will did exist?
>: How would it be different from what we have now?
>
>if i would have a free will, i would change the physical laws. in my
>opinion it is stupid, that an apple falls down. i want an apple to fall
>up.
>
>i hope it is clear, what i want to say. there would be no rules in the 
>world, if there would be a free will.
>
>harald.
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And so there are no rules!!! Harald, you are interesting me!

If we had "free will", we could live in impossible stories that break apart
without making sense. I guess that in dreams, there is free will. But when
we awaken it is no longer ours!!!! The only stories that are lived are
those that make enough sense to hold together!

There are no rules now! That which makes a good story gets lived. That
which does not goes unlived. But what about horrible evil and bad
experiences? Would I wish for a life of no challenge? All challenges must
be met, and all joy as well.

The only rule is that you must make sense to yourself, but only when you
think that is important!;->
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

