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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Free will (was: Minsky's new article)
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Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 19:24:50 GMT
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In article <MARCUS.94Nov8015942@jetsam.cs.pdx.edu>,
Marcus Daniels <marcus@jetsam.cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
>push@mit.edu (Pushpinder Singh) writes:
>Pushpinder> I have never seen an even slightly coherent explanation of
>Pushpinder> this concept.  As far as I can see, there's chance and
>Pushpinder> there's determinism, and there's nothing in between.
>
>Causality is implied by absolute determinism.
>Causality is not denied by the lack of absolute determinism.
>Free will is denied by causality.

I don't know what definition of free will you're using; but if free will
means the ability to do what you want, then far from being denied by
causality, free will depends on it: you don't have free will unless your
actions are caused by your decisions.
