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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Free will (was: Minsky's new article)
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In article <CzHJL1.Mt@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>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?  

You have to read the rest of the paragraph.  It was a pretty minor
point, perhaps.

> No one said that free will depends on determinism.

People *have* said it, here, in the past.

-- jd
