[ExI] free-will, determinism, crime and punishment

John K Clark jonkc at att.net
Sun Aug 19 15:55:46 UTC 2007


"Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>

> If someone hacked into the program, however,
> and just before the hour was  up forced the program
> to emit Qxf6 instead, then the program's "free will"
> was abrogated.

That is exactly equivalent to saying "After I started processing the data
but before I produced an output I came into possession of important
new data on the matter". Yep, an idea so bad it's not even wrong.

John K Clark





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