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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?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/ 2007-10-25 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooops... reading fpage from top down, so already responded here.

The short form: the answer depends on assumptions within the question, and the assumptions required to call the question relevant to everyday life are way too restrictive to be useful in any definitive macroscopic way.