<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</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;">
"Eugen Leitl" <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>><br><br>> How can you prove you've got free will, or not, empirically?<br><br>You can't prove it, not for any deep reason it's just that the term "free
<br>will" is just a noise some people like to make with their mouth, that's it,<br>nothing more. Personally I never cared much for the sound of it myself, I<br>don't find it particularly musical and so I seldom make that noise with
<br> my mouth.<br><br>I don't believe there is any idea in philosophy (or criminal law)<br>stupider than free will, not even immaculate conception.<br>It's a classic example of an idea so bad it's not even wrong.
</blockquote><div><br>Well said! <br><br>Stathis Papaioannou <br></div><br></div><br>