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Re: Free Will, Does it Exist?

Postby DIss0n80r » Sun May 27, 2012 4:05 am

So modest!
"I can conceive of nothing in religion, science, or philosophy, that is anything more than the proper thing to wear, for a while." ~ Charles Fort
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Re: Free Will, Does it Exist?

Postby at1with0 » Sun May 27, 2012 10:09 am

khanster wrote:
DIss0n80r wrote:Does that mean free will is an illusion? :roll:


If every possible scenario plays out in some possible world then their is no point to free will. Every choice is chosen by some version of ourselves somewhere in the vast landscape of all possible selves.


How does one determine what is possible?
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Re: Free Will, Does it Exist?

Postby khanster » Sun May 27, 2012 12:52 pm

at1with0 wrote:
khanster wrote:
DIss0n80r wrote:Does that mean free will is an illusion? :roll:


If every possible scenario plays out in some possible world then their is no point to free will. Every choice is chosen by some version of ourselves somewhere in the vast landscape of all possible selves.


How does one determine what is possible?


http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Possibility_theory

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/e ... WiT9u_87UJ





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysical_possibility

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_possibility
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