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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Received on Sat Sep 02 2006 - 07:51:45 PDT