Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihopa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihopa!dap From: dap@ihopa.UUCP (afsd) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Quantum mechanics and free will... - (nf) Message-ID: <173@ihopa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 16:20:16 EST Article-I.D.: ihopa.173 Posted: Fri Mar 9 16:20:16 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 01:01:26 EST References: <2704@fortune.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 10 All this talk of non-determinism vs. determinism doesn't really have much bearing on free will vs. lack of same. So what if atoms happen to disintegrate at random rather that due to some predetermined cause? It still isn't due to "free will". It happens by pure chance (as opposed to the type of chance which one gets when rolling dice). So you have your choice. Either it happens determinately or it happens by pure chance. I don't see how the lack of determinacy "proves" free will. Darrell Plank ihnp4!ihopa!dap