Re: virus: Re: Rationality

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:44:00 -0000

Alexander Williams wrote:
>Robin Faichney wrote:
>> >Perhaps `free will' as the ability of a memetic environment to operate
>> >without its future state known precisely by any other entity.
>>
>> Delete "other"?
>
>If I have a perfectly accurate model of my own behaviour, does that
>really count as a lack of free will or just knowing my own reactions
>really well?

If it's perfectly accurate, you have no choice but to follow it.

> What about if its not known to /me/ that its perfectly
>accurate, it just happens to be?

See above.

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Robin Faichney
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http://www.stir.ac.uk/envsci/staff/rjf1/