On 7/6/2025 5:04 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM Quentin Anciaux
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I mean that within each branch, the observer experiences
making a definite choice and can't predict which branch they
will end up in before decoherence.
/> You don't get to choose which branch you will be on!/
*Isn't that what Quinton just said using different words?*
/> You have a lot of work to do to show that self-location on
branches is the same as compatibilist free-will in a single
deterministic universe./
*I have no idea what "free-will", compatibilistor otherwise, means. *
Then you should find out before condemning it. Compatibilist free-will
is so called because it's compatible with determinism. It says you
actions are determined by your perceptions, experience, genetics etc.
Everything that is encoded in your brain and body, in other words by who
you are. And as Daniel Dennett said that's all the free will worth having.
Brent
*I've said it before I'll say it again, free-will is an idea so bad
it's not even wrong. *
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*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
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