Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2016 sci.philosophy.tech:674 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!umn-cs!ns!logajan 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 Message-ID: <442@ns.ns.com> Date: 13 Jul 88 18:03:32 GMT References: <483@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk> <794@l.cc.purdue.edu> <488@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <407@ns.ns.com> Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN Lines: 18 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. - John M. Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - - {...rutgers!umn-cs, ...amdahl!bungia, ...uunet!rosevax!bungia} !ns!logajan -