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>From: bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Freewill, chaos and digital systems
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Date: 30 Sep 92 04:42:01 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk's message of 29 Sep 92 18: 05:24 GMT

jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

   > My point was simply that people do not decide what thoughts to
   > have except in a very limited way, because otherwise there'd be
   > an infinite regress of decisions.  So there's a sense in which
   > they do not have free will.  On the other hand, this may be a
   > variety of free will not worth wanting (cf Dennett).

There have been times when I would have given a great deal to have
that variety of free will :-).

	-- Bill


