[ExI] Free will was: Everett worlds

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 04:11, Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 2020-8-17 08:54, SR Ballard via extropy-chat wrote:
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> > If free will is real and you think it is not, you can and will excuse
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> > all manner of immorality, sloth, and cruelty because they couldn’t be
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> > avoided. You probably put murderers in jail, but it’s kind of stupid
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> > because from your perspective they never decided to kill anyone.
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> > Killing someone was something they would be completely unable to
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> > prevent.
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> Seems to me, even without free will, your actions can be influenced by
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> your prediction of consequences; and therefore it still promotes
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> happiness to reinforce some behaviors and discourage others.


If free will means that your actions are undetermined then ONLY without
free will could they be influenced by anything.

> --
Stathis Papaioannou
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