<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:08 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Jason Resch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasonresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasonresch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Are you familiar with:<br>
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik<wbr>i/Compatibilism</a> ?</p></blockquote><div><br></div></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div>They define free will as freedom to act according to one's motives without arbitrary hindrance from other individuals or institutions.<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">"</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Why the distinction, what difference does it make if the </font></div><font size="4">hindrance<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> comes from other individuals or from the basic laws of physics? Either way my will is throttled, I can't do what I want to do.</div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### If the restriction comes from individuals, your social threat detector module is appropriately activated, and will give you useful guidance on what to do to these individuals. If the hindrance is baked into the basic laws of physics, the social threat detector is useless, instead you have to use the physics module. In the context of this thread it is important, since the physics module does not think about your will, free or not free, it just shuts up and computes. The social module however runs uselessly around in circles trying to do the job of the physics module, wondering how quanta impinge on will.</div><div><br></div><div>One needs to keep one's modules on a short leash, and make them do only the jobs they were trained for.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div>
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