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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Making your mind up Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 17:40:20 +0100 Organization: University of Ediacara Lines: 47 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <9k4a3jph1na32oodsgqldm8l81e19j28kv@4ax.com> References: <v0b9f3$2da1g$1@dont-email.me> <69lm2jd8t6upgsunjko8195iudot8qirdh@4ax.com> <v0gkut$3pro6$1@dont-email.me> <3udo2jd1tkcimin2bf3b3h6klc35s4cppe@4ax.com> <v0k2vn$kua7$2@dont-email.me> <0g1t2j12g8lvbdlbgshu60t7vk8a1r579v@4ax.com> <v0ogsp$1r7cd$1@dont-email.me> <5kjv2jpbr4805jm7hr0sfpnetns066fiu9@4ax.com> <v0p85i$692a$1@solani.org> <56j03jtgl91alj4s4lvgkcrsfu2ikh6mqj@4ax.com> <v10iqi$al6e$1@solani.org> <mvj73j5cn44c0udjda7rnr001vustff2cq@4ax.com> <v10o4k$ani4$3@solani.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="39224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 To: talk-origins@moderators.individual.net Cancel-Lock: sha1:LoNpsXUUYwApjIeslh408mVfq54= sha256:rA/L5U4ozDmDWxhxC/s/F7u5HCCszGcdlPp0rCXfw4o= Return-Path: <mod-submit@uni-berlin.de> X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 3BA4E229782; Fri, 3 May 2024 12:40:39 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBE50229765 for <talk-origins@ediacara.org>; Fri, 3 May 2024 12:40:36 -0400 (EDT) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.97) for talk-origins@moderators.individual.net with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from <mod-submit@uni-berlin.de>) id 1s2vxf-00000002AzH-0w1b; Fri, 03 May 2024 18:40:39 +0200 by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.97) for talk-origins@moderators.individual.net with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from <mod-submit@uni-berlin.de>) id 1s2vxN-00000002VUT-3YNP; Fri, 03 May 2024 18:40:21 +0200 by relay1.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.97) for talk-origins@moderators.individual.net with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from <mod-submit@uni-berlin.de>) id 1s2vxN-00000001F2Q-3GLq; Fri, 03 May 2024 18:40:21 +0200 for talk-origins@moderators.individual.net with local-bsmtp (envelope-from <mod-submit@uni-berlin.de>) id 1s2vxM-00000000rqg-2V11; Fri, 03 May 2024 18:40:20 +0200 X-Path: individual.net!not-for-mail X-Orig-X-Trace: individual.net zIqLIBMYkdcvgFxTbopAqQQYwxhjg8d2JxpnTsSNKlgCZQ44Rf X-Originating-IP: 130.133.4.5 X-ZEDAT-Hint: RO Bytes: 5035 On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:04:53 -0500, DB Cates <cates_db@hotmail.com> wrote: >On 2024-05-02 12:46 PM, Bob Casanova wrote: [..] >>> >>> My understanding of the "probabilistic nature of base reality" is that >>> some subatomic events are truly random and can have, over the long term, >>> gross effects and very occasionally immediate gross effects. >>> >> Usually more the former than the latter, but yes, I believe >> that is correct. >>> >>> How does >>> this allow for "something resembling choice"? >>>>> >> It would mean that the universe is not, as Newton believed >> and as Planck disproved, "clockwork". And this in turn means >> (to me, at least) that events are not strictly the result of >> prior events; i.e., not fully deterministic. So if free will >> (or choice, if you prefer) and strict determinism are the >> only possibilities then free will, while restricted, is >> possible. > >How does that possible random variation resemble 'free will' in any way? >What would be the restriction? "Resemble" seems a peculiar choice of word there. ISTM that randomness contradict determinism but neither supports nor contradicts free will. Randomness creates options, free will decides which one we select. Let's say I was in the shop today and decided to do a "Quick Pick" for this weekend's lottery i.e. the numbers are selected at random by the machine in the shop, not selected by me. Those numbers come up in the lottery and I win a heap of money. That is a totally random event unless someone wants to explain how it was determined that the machine in the shop and the lottery machine both picked those numbers. After that random event, I now have a number of choices; I could blow the money on things I always fancied like that Ferrari and the luxury villa in Spain; I could provide financial security for my kids; I could support my favourite charities; I could do a mixture of those things. Those choices are where my free will comes in. [...]