rlr (08/09/82)
Given enough time you would generate all solutions. The set that you do generate is generated at random, perhaps directly based on QUANTUM events so that they cannot be predicted. This makes the behaviour of a person unpredictable (to an extent) no matter how emmense your computing resources. ----------qouted from previous article On the contrary, the method by which your brain generates solutions (and the types of solutions it generates) is (are) fixed --- given a situation and THE EXACT POSITION OF ALL OBJECTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE PERSON THAT HAVE AN EFFECT ON THAT PERSON'S GENERATING A SOLUTION (a truly unclear statement if there ever was one), I can determine which solutions the person's brain will come up with and in what order Note that the objects in question include the person him/herself---what his/her eyes were directed at, what he/she was just thinking about, etc., all have an effect on the resulting decision. And what does all this have to do with free will?? If unpredictable "quantum events" occur in this universe, then the universe cannot be a deterministic system. But what it then becomes is a random system, not one involving free will. The randomness of these "quantum events" certainly does not give an individual a system of choice any more than the deterministic model. Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr