On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:01:09AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 11 Aug 2012, at 09:45, Russell Standish wrote: > > > >Nevertheless, randomness is a key component of free will. > > > So comp is false? I mean comp can only defend a compatibilist (or > mechanist, deterministic) theory of free-will, like with the self- > indetermination based on diagonalization. > I have never seen how we can use randomness to justify free-will. > May be you can elaborate? > > Bruno >
If there are several actions an agent may perform, and one optimal in terms of the agent's utility, but the utility is computationally unfeasible, then an agent can choose one of the actions by random choice. I don't see why this would entail comp is false though. Perhaps you could elaborate? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
