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From: bjm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Bruce McAdam)
Subject: Re: Freedom = Determinism = Random (The heck it does)
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In article <4fu00s$fa9@niflheim.rutgers.edu>, owl@niflheim.rutgers.edu (Michael Huemer) writes:
> I have free will = I have a choice about some things.
> 		 = Some things that happen in the world are up to me.
> 		 = Sometimes I have more than one alternative
> 		   available to me.
> 		 = There are some things that have happened that I
> 		   could have avoided.
> 		 = There are some things I have done that I could have
> 		   refrained from doing.

But it's all a trick.  You only get to make one choice, and this is 
determined.  Your free-will is apparent to you but is just illusory.

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