Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.13 $; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!dsaker From: dsaker@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Omniscience and Freedom Message-ID: <1600006@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 15:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: iuvax.1600006 Posted: Tue Oct 2 15:19:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 01:34:23 EDT References: <379@wucs.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:wucs:-37900:iuvax:1600006:000:852 Nf-From: iuvax!dsaker Oct 2 14:19:00 1984 [] 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."