Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: I think you are all making a mistake ... Message-ID: <3613@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 17:37:59 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3613 Posted: Thu Mar 8 17:37:59 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 17:37:59 EST References: <1395@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 19 Greg Skinner, I am not saying that *your knowing* implies that *you control* the future. I am saying that *your knowing* implies *something controls* the future -- whatever it is that you use to make your prediction of your future. Therefore, the future is not *free*. Therefore I am not free. The only way that you can escape this with your time machine is to assume that either the world that you visited was only a "potential world" and might not ever be part of the past, or that there is a new world for every decision, and thus there were a *lot* of future worlds that you could have visited but you just happened to visit this one. Personally, I think that the second explanation is too complicated. Better to give up either free will or omniscience. -- Laura Creighton utzoo!laura