Re: Counterfactual?

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:49:46 +0200

Le 31-août-06, à 12:59, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :


> But is there any sense in which we as humans are any more "free" than
> billiard
> balls or dice beyond the fact that we *feel* we are free? I have a
> strong feeling
> that my free will is not randomness and not determinism: is there
> anything really
> other tthan these two possibilities?


The (relative) partial computable functions offers many ways to study
varieties of mathematical processes in between. Self-observing machine
cannot predict their own behavior, but they can predict that very
unpredictability, though.

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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