>Perhaps `free will' as the ability of a memetic environment to operate
>without its future state known precisely by any other entity. We can
>make guesses, sometimes quite /good/ guesses, about the future states of
>memetic environments, but knowing the future state at any given time
>precisely would invalidate its `free will.
Do we want to make 'free will' an attribute only of memetic environments?
i.e. can anything else have free will? A more serious problem is we can't
know the future state of anything precisely, so this definition isn't too
useful.
How about definining 'free will' in terms of control and/or influence
rather than predictability?
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/