[ExI] Bell's Inequality

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 06:50:51 UTC 2016


On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:
> Adrian Tymes wrote:
> <You have the perception of your own free will.  This has two limitations:
> 1) You can not be certain it is not an illusion.
> 2) Even failing 1, you can only be certain of your own free will.  You
> can not observe the free will, or lack thereof, of all outside of
> yourself.>
>
> Assuming evolution through natural selection, it seems highly unlikely
> that an organism would evolve the perception of freedom of choice, without
> there being any actual freedom of choice. It would seem to be a waste of
> resources.

As to evolved wastes of resources, I present the appendix.

That said, you are right, it seems unlikely that free will is an
illusion.  I was just noting, this is not logical proof, only
likelihood.



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