<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Broderick</b> <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At 04:03 PM 4/4/2007 +1000, Stathis wrote:<br><br>>the impossibility of something being neither determined nor random,<br>>which is (I believe) the common notion of free will.<br><br>I haven't followed this thread but I find this common objection to
<br>free will facile...</blockquote><div><br>Maybe, but I think this is what the ordinary person's concept of free will is. Compatibilists redefine it so that it is consistent with determinism. That's OK, as long we are clear about it, and the implications of this definition: namely, that if you *have* to make a particular decision in a particular situation, but you don't know what this decision is until you make it, then that's free will.
<br><br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div></div><br>