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From: rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 1994 05:31:39 GMT
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In article <3c2602$r84@mp.cs.niu.edu>, Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu> wrote:
>In <D0E5Mt.2rt@armory.com> rstevew@armory.com (Richard Steven Walz) writes:
>
>>Simply do one thing then. Use the phrase "free-will" and convey something
>>in the way of useful information with it.
>
>When you badgered me and tried to pressure me into expressing my
>religious and political views in a followup, I exercised my free will
>by declining to succumb to your pressure.
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Don't bother, Neil! It'[s clear that you couldn't help yourself!!!!!!;-)

>>Yes, but even more is available about them which still denies "free-will"
>>because that is all that reason can do with the thing! As for determinism,
>>it makes sense, and is the foundation of reason!
>
>You would base reason on an assumption of determinism!  This seems to
>be an extraordinarily flimsy basis for reason.
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Determinism means there is only one future a second from now. Without that
assurance, nothing exists!
-Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

