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From: telford@threetek.dialix.oz.au (Telford Tendys)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article
In-Reply-To: rstevew@armory.com's message of Sat, 3 Dec 1994 16:03:27 GMT
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> >That is just the point I was trying to make.  Roughly
> >speaking if you deny that you have free will, you implicitly deny
> >that you have the ability to acquire the knowledge to support your
> >denial of free will.

> If a chatty-Cathy doll said, "I am fully sentient and aware
> with free will!", does this mean she therefore, by your example, prove that
> she DOES have free will??? NO! And if she denies that she has free-will?
> Same thing.
> -Steve Walz   rstevew@armory.com

Hmmm, s`pose chatty-Cathy says to you,
"I'm not really fully sentient.
I'm a bit of an air head -- that's why I got this job.
But you can't go discriminating against me for being stupid!
After all, I AM aware and I DO have free will."

Now you must find an experiment that could prove her wrong.
BTW: Cathy doesn't like internal examination
so any opening her up is against the rules;
your experiment must consider her as a whole entity.

	- Tel
