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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Free will (was: Minsky's new article)
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 22:53:24 GMT
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In article <CzFtEq.AAt@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Jeff Dalton <jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <Cz0LxF.3CM@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>>Marcus Daniels <marcus@jetsam.cs.pdx.edu> wrote:
>>>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.
>
>While that is so, it's not the case that free will depends on
>*determinism*.  

So what's your point?  No one said that free will depends on determinism.
