[extropy-chat] The omniscience of God and the free will of Man

[JDP]

Freedom is the ability of doing what one wants. If I know what you want, 
I can sometimes predict what you will do; it doesn't make you any less free.

This concept of freedom is sound, and such freedom is desirable. The 
other, metaphysical concepts of freedom (or "free will") are either 
self-contradictory (being able to choose what one wants) or they refer 
to things that are not worth wanting* ("undeterminedness").

Jacques

*the first book by Dennett on the subject was aptly subtitled "the 
varieties of free will worth wanting" (but I don't recommend the book 
itself).