tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) (10/28/85)
[] I number of people have argued that indeterminism is at least a necessary condition for free will. That is, one condition of a system's having free will is that its past states are not related to ints present states deterministically. I have recently reread an article by Daniel Dennett in which he develops a fairly straightforward thesis of this sort. I am referring to "On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want," included in _Brainstorms_ (Bradford, 1978). It's a fairly short piece, and it's very clearly written. Many of the same points are made in his more recent _Elbow_Room_, but personally I think his style has not benefitted by his association with Hofstadter; I can take only so much cuteness. Dennett