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Re:John Conway: Discovering free will (2011) by vokep on Thursday July 26, 2018 @02:21PM (#17619629)
but that just means there is more logical (predetermined) action 'out of our reality' The input of a program is predetermined by the physics that drive input to reach the program. (or it is from nowhere and is truly random, though I doubt this is the case)
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Re:John Conway: Discovering free will (2011) by madeuptempacct on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:32PM (#17620255)
This is a good explanation. We are saying we give the function x and y, but we can't guarantee that z comes out EVEN if we control for everything we are aware of. Thank you.

Still, I don't understand any of this even vaguely past the platitudes.

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