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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: I think you are all making a mistake ...
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Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 17:37:59 EST
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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