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From: Dave Blei <cs141041@cslab8f>
Subject: Re: What is Free Will???? 
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On 23 Sep 1994, Melissa L Book wrote:

> The question is -- are we truly able to choose what we want, or must
> we follow some pre-determined course for our lives (without being
> aware of it)?
> 
Why does it matter?  As long as we THINK we have free will, this is 
sufficient to proving that we do.  And it seems to me that the reason we 
think we have free will is that it would be impossible to function 
effectively without this assumption.   


-Dave Blei.
