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Re:Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive by danbruc on Friday April 19, 2013 @09:50PM (#5579575)
»We all have choices and free will [...]« is debatable. There are probably better times to do this but it is definitely debatable.
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Re:Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive by Aloisius on Friday April 19, 2013 @10:22PM (#5579665)
Isn't free will he flip side to determinism? I am able to generate truly random numbers which are completely non-deterministic by any number of methods (deck of cards, pick a number 0|1 over and over, muscle twitches, etc). Doesn't that imply that I have, at some basic level, free will?
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Re:Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive by anigbrowl on Friday April 19, 2013 @10:31PM (#5579702)
It could just as easily imply that your decisions are essentially random noise, which we seek to rationalize afterwards.
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