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From: ghh@thought.Princeton.EDU (Gilbert Harman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free will
Keywords: philosophy,causality,free will
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Date: 31 May 88 15:51:48 GMT
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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
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