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Free will?
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RE: Free will?
February 11, 2014 at 8:05 am
(February 10, 2014 at 9:11 pm)JuliaL Wrote: Easy. Repeat the situation and choose an alternate course of action.
Unfortunately this requires that you revisit the exact same spacetime coordinates to reset the universe for the second trial. So until Doc Brown lends you his Delorean I think you're out of luck.

Ah, but does it?

Let's take a computer, programmed to generate a random number between 0 and 1. If it is 0-0.5 it gives output A, and 0.5-1 output B.

I run the test and it outputs A. I re-run the test and it gives output B.

Does the computer have free will?
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Free will? - by BrokenQuill92 - February 10, 2014 at 12:06 am
RE: Free will? - by JuliaL - February 10, 2014 at 12:43 am
RE: Free will? - by Tonus - February 10, 2014 at 9:36 am
RE: Free will? - by Sword of Christ - February 10, 2014 at 10:05 am
RE: Free will? - by MindForgedManacle - February 10, 2014 at 10:15 am
RE: Free will? - by Tonus - February 10, 2014 at 11:44 am
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 10, 2014 at 6:42 pm
RE: Free will? - by Esquilax - February 11, 2014 at 9:47 am
RE: Free will? - by Wyrd of Gawd - March 11, 2014 at 2:44 am
RE: Free will? - by Jovanian Teapot - March 11, 2014 at 3:20 pm
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - March 11, 2014 at 6:40 pm
RE: Free will? - by Jovanian Teapot - March 11, 2014 at 2:27 am
RE: Free will? - by Tonus - March 11, 2014 at 9:40 am
RE: Free will? - by Chad32 - February 10, 2014 at 1:01 am
RE: Free will? - by SteelCurtain - February 10, 2014 at 1:27 am
RE: Free will? - by BrokenQuill92 - February 10, 2014 at 1:33 am
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 10, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Free will? - by Chad32 - February 10, 2014 at 9:18 am
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 10, 2014 at 5:03 am
RE: Free will? - by Jacob(smooth) - February 10, 2014 at 5:21 am
RE: Free will? - by Sword of Christ - February 10, 2014 at 9:22 am
RE: Free will? - by shep - February 19, 2014 at 10:44 pm
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 10, 2014 at 7:38 pm
RE: Free will? - by JuliaL - February 10, 2014 at 9:11 pm
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 11, 2014 at 8:05 am
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2014 at 8:42 am
RE: Free will? - by MindForgedManacle - February 11, 2014 at 9:39 am
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 11, 2014 at 10:20 am
RE: Free will? - by JuliaL - February 11, 2014 at 11:47 am
RE: Free will? - by ThePinsir - February 11, 2014 at 11:34 am
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 11, 2014 at 1:21 pm
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 11, 2014 at 8:46 pm
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 11, 2014 at 8:56 pm
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 12, 2014 at 7:42 am
RE: Free will? - by Whateverist - February 12, 2014 at 8:19 am
RE: Free will? - by bennyboy - February 12, 2014 at 7:35 pm
RE: Free will? - by FreeTony - February 12, 2014 at 9:47 am
RE: Free will? - by MJ the Skeptical - February 20, 2014 at 12:56 pm
RE: Free will? - by heathendegenerate - March 11, 2014 at 2:40 pm
RE: Free will? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 7:35 am



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