Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!princeton!mind!thought!ghh From: ghh@thought.Princeton.EDU (Gilbert Harman) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Free will Keywords: philosophy,causality,free will Message-ID: <2511@mind.UUCP> Date: 31 May 88 15:51:48 GMT References: <30472@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <17470@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: news@mind.UUCP Reply-To: ghh@thought.UUCP (Gilbert Harman) Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University Lines: 23 In article <17470@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) writes: > > Since this discussion has lost all relevance to anything anybody >is likely to actually implement in the AI field in the next twenty years >or so, could this be moved to talk.philosophy? > > John Nagle Drew McDermott's suggestion seems highly relevant to implementations while offering a nice approach to at least one problem of free will. (It seems clear that people have been worried about a number of different things under the name of "free will".) How about keeping a discussion of McDermott's approach here and moving the rest of the discussion to talk.philosophy? Gilbert Harman Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory 221 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 ghh@princeton.edu HARMAN@PUCC.BITNET