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To: boris
OK, what 'something else'? It cannot be an "input" or it would be, well, an input. If it is not an input, how does it influence your behavior?

That would be the mechanism of "free will" processing input and returning output. We can't see how it works because it's within the "black box" that is the human mind.

51 posted on 07/06/2003 12:54:41 AM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: xm177e2
"That would be the mechanism of "free will" processing input and returning output. We can't see how it works because it's within the "black box" that is the human mind."

A mechanism?!

Do you really mean a mechanism? Because, see, a mechanism has no free-will; it is at best chaotic.

It "processes" input? According to some algorithm? If the processing follows an algorithm, it is not free. If it uses no algorithm, it is random (chaotic). In either case it is not "free".

Now try again, without mechanisms, processing, whatever.

--Boris

68 posted on 07/06/2003 9:31:18 AM PDT by boris
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