[ExI] free will again

[Keith Henson]

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Free will is an illusion, biologist
says
Physorg.com Mar. 3, 2010
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University of Pennsylvania
biologist Anthony Cashmore argues
that belief in free will is akin to
religious beliefs, since neither
complies with the laws of the
physical world, representing a
continuing belief in vitalism or
magic. He says free will is an
illusion derived from consciousness,
but consciousness has an
evolutionary advantage of...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=11895&m=21115

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I think Minsky put it better but the main point is that this isn't a
useful subject here or elsewhere.

Keith