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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 <4g3f6k$5m8@niflheim.rutgers.edu>, owl@rci.rutgers.edu (Michael Huemer) writes:
> bjm@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Bruce McAdam) writes:
> 
> >In article <4fu00s$fa9@niflheim.rutgers.edu>, owl@niflheim.rutgers.edu (Michael Huemer) writes:
> >> I have free will = I have a choice about some things.
> . . .
> >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.
> 
> Why is it a trick?  What's the one choice, and how do you know it's
> determined?  Why is my free will illusory?

Maybe it's just me that doesn't have free-will.

I don't have any way to experience your subjective world so I have
to (reluctantly) agree that you do have free-will.

But you can't convince me that I'm not a zombie.
 
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