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Subject: Re: Omniscience and Freedom
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Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 15:19:00 EDT
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But, Paul Torek, imagine the following:
     
After contemplating my various courses of action, I choose what seems to me 
to be the best.  Then I note that that was what I knew I would do.
Having the desire to test this whole idea of preknowledge, I decide to
follow my second best course of action -- that is, I choose to do something
different from what I "know" I am going to do.

I can imagine various solutions to the above problem, but each of them
conflicts with my sense of free will.  We can resolve these conflicts
by denying me (my conception of) free will.  However, if I were 
omnipotent, then I do not see how these conflicts could be resolved,
because omnipotence would seem to guarantee (my conception of) free will.

Daryel Akerlind
...ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!dsaker
"Your ignorance makes me ill and angry.  This savagery must cease."