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From: logajan@ns.ns.com (John Logajan x3118)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: How to dispose of the free will issue (long)
Summary: free will and the many worlds theory
Keywords: free will architecture terminology
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Date: 13 Jul 88 18:03:32 GMT
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Since we are asked to believe in unprovable things, such as the no-free-will
theory (or the free-will theory for that matter) why not believe in every
unproveable theory.

Just try combining the deterministic theory with the many worlds theory. In
many worlds, at each instant the universe splits into an infinite number of
alternate universes, each one taking a slightly different 'turn'.  i.e. in
one universe I get killed, in another I don't etc.  Each sub-universe futher
splits into an infinite number and so on.

You can argue determinism both ways here.  After all every possibility is
addressed, and so it is deterministic in some sense and yet it isn't.

My point is that unproveable theories aren't very useful.

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