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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2007-10-25 11:34 am

Free Will

In the comments on [livejournal.com profile] yellowmouser's journal here and here I engage the question of whether or not free will is an illusion (I think not). Updated to add: J argues against me here.

What are your thoughts on the question? Is it an interesting question or purely a polemic debate?
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[identity profile] netmouse.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you guys have a copy I could borrow?

In complexity theory, it isn't just the randomness of the world that makes it hard to predict, its also emergent behaviors of complex systems - basically, the interconnectedness of things and how structure evolves out of chaos in certain circumstances.

[identity profile] sarahmichigan.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No, sorry, I got mine from the library.