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From: rsultan@drake.prometric.com (Rashed Sultan)
Subject: Re: Open Letter to Professor Penrose
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>Tim Hollebeek <tim@franck.Princeton.EDU> wrote:

>That doesn't remove the "free will". Quantum fluctuations can still
>happen, although it's questionable or we should call undeterminancy
>by them "free will". However, if you calculate the possibility that
>a quantumfluctuation will change wether a neuron "fires" or not, it
>will be very small. And iot has to be, otherwise the brain would be
>totally unpredictable which it certainly isn't. I don't believe in a
>really free will, it just looks that way because the brain is so
>complex and the interaction with the surrounding and signals from the
>body makes it hard (impossible in practice) how a certain person will
>react in a (usually not till the quantum levvel described) situation.


I believe that this thread is not getting anywhere. I agree with the
above point of view and many of the others. 

It seems like free will is a matter of viewing it from different
angles. Is this possible that in self analysis we all want our free
will defined and yet for others we call it predictable and
deterministic.

THEN DO WE PREDICT OURSELVES TO OURSELVES,  ALL THE TIME AND NEVER
SURPRISE OURSELVES IN MAKING ANY DECISIONS ?

 I don't think I can predict my actions to that capacity. It is
CERTAINLY arguable whether my decisions reflect my events (situations)
or my events (situations) reflect my decisions and  these are
certainly not mutually exclusive.

:-)

Rashed

-------    VIEWS OF MY FREE WILL 

