<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:43 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That being why I wrote “<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">if free will is wrong”, that is, if it doesn’t exist.</span></i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">The only thing that <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">can</span> be <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">both </span>not X and also not <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">(not </span>X<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)</span> is gibberish<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">; "free will" is not wrong anymore than a burp is wrong, both are just noises made with the mouth. </span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>