Speaking of the legal aspect, Yes, Hitler exercised his *insert gibberish here* when he issued orders to kill the Jews. IF "*gibberish*" does not exist, then how can we hold criminals culpable in that they had no choice but to commit crime? Seems unfair to punish anyone under those circumstances.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:05 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> >> > while you do not *always* know what you're going to do, you know your >>> preferences most of the time. >>> >> >> And Turing proved that some of the time a computer can tell if it will >> eventually stop or not, but not all of the time. >> >> > The feeling of 'free will' comes from the inability retrospectively >>> to see all the causes; so that, out of ignorance, it seems that one could >>> have done otherwise. >>> >> >> Yes, and unlike other definitions of "free will" this one is not >> gibberish, however when you boil it down all it's really saying is you >> don't know what you don't know. The highest status the philosophical >> "concept" called "free will" can aspire to is that of being right but >> trivially circular, most of the time it's not even that, most of the time >> it's just gibberish. >> > > Aside from the philosophical concept, there is the social/legal concept of > not coerced, referred to as exercising 'free will', which is what Stenger > proposes just to call "autonomy". > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
