[extropy-chat] Role of MWI and Time Travel (was: Are ancestor simulations immoral?)

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/25/06, scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:
>
> # I don't know if physics has something to do with
> human free will. The problem seems to be the free will
> of simple systems


Simple systems by virtue of the fact that they are simple don't have any
kind of will, any more than they have poetry, stock portfolios or favorite
ice cream. Free will by definition only applies to sentient beings, which
are necessarily complex systems.
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