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From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: How to dispose of the free will issue (long)
Keywords: free will architecture terminology
Message-ID: <488@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jul 88 15:36:15 GMT
References: <483@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk> <794@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton,E26 SB x206E,,2295119)
Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
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In article <794@l.cc.purdue.edu> cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>Whether or not we have free will, we should behave as if we do,
>because if we don't, it doesn't matter.

If that is true -- if it doesn't matter -- then we will do just as well
to behave as if we do not have free will.

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