On 16 Mar 2013, at 08:15, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:

You persist in saying that if the components of the system are
mechanistic then the system cannot control something. That is not the
way the phrase is normally used.


What do you mean by 'control'? Can you define it?

"Control" can be defined less controversially than "free will".

Nice!
We might define free-will by self-control, perhaps.

Bruno



I
control something if I can determine its behaviour according to my
wishes.


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