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Old 11-13-2007, 02:56 PM
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Default Re: Freewill

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I think of the human as a computer system which will always make decisions that they think (experience + IQ determines thinking power) will benefit them most.


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So you say a person acts according to "what he wants." But your definition of "what he wants" is exactly: "how he acts." [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Clearly this an entirely circular project...it just goes to show the hopeless ambiguity caused by lazily assuming that humans are anything like idealized Agents.

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you'd prefer that he redefines free will to mean something different than most would recognize in order to avoid difficult questions?
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