Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2012-05-10 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 09 May 2012, at 21:39, R AM wrote: On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 May 2012, at 17:09, R AM wrote: nothing could also be obtained by removing the curly brackets from the empty set {}. N... Some bit of blank remains. If it was

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-10 Thread R AM
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:07 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I agree with that point. But I also wanted to make the point that there is social concept of free will that has to do with responsibility, and it is compatible with different dualist, determinist, and non-deterministic

Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet

2012-05-10 Thread Evgenii Rudnyi
Below there is a message from Facebook where his author briefly describes a book with papers about Libet's experiment. I guess that this should be useful for discussions about free will. Evgenii --- Review :Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet The editors of

Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

2012-05-10 Thread John Mikes
Bruno and Ricardo: ...unless you remove the boundries as well - I think. That would end up for nothing with a POINT, which is still a point and not nothing. (If you eliminate the point???) John M On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 09 May 2012, at

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-10 Thread John Clark
Stathis Papaioannou wrote My definition: free will is when you're not sure you're going to do something until you've done it. On Tue, May 8, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So if carefully weigh my options and decide on one it's not free will? You don't know what the outcome all

Re: Free will in MWI

2012-05-10 Thread meekerdb
On 5/10/2012 1:08 PM, John Clark wrote: Stathis Papaioannou wrote My definition: free will is when you're not sure you're going to do something until you've done it. So by your definition is a there ever a time when you're not exercising free will? On Tue, May 8, meekerdb