{"id":107,"date":"2004-10-22T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2004-10-22T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T23:10:00","slug":"armed-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Armed and Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Predictability, Computability, and Free Will [Science] <\/span>
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Quoted from Eric Raymond’s Blog:
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“I’ve been reading some philosophical discussion of the free-will\/determism question recently. Quite a number of years ago I discovered a resolution of this question, but never did anything with it because I assumed I had simply reinvented a well-known position and could not really contribute anything to the debate. However, the research I’ve done recently suggests that my resolution of the question is actually a novel one.
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Like a lot of philosophy, the discussion of free will and determinism I’ve seen founders on two errors. One of this is Aristotelianism, an attachment to observer-independent two-valued logic in a system of universal categories as the only sort of truth. The other is a tendency to get snarled up in meaningless categories that are artifacts of language rather than useful abstractions from observed reality.”<\/p>\n

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Predictability, Computability, and Free Will [Science] Quoted from Eric Raymond’s Blog: “I’ve been reading some philosophical discussion of the free-will\/determism question recently. 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