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Originally Posted by zen_tom
So back to the point, is free-will distinguisable from 'non-computability', if so, how?
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Yes, they are distinguishable. It's the diffenece between Chaos and randomness. Chaos is the sensitive dependence on initial conditons you refer to. The roll of the dice is chaotic. Free will would indicate that, even if you knew all the associated initial conditions (which appears to be impossible), you couldn't predict outcome.
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Originally Posted by CSfilm
Surely RANDOM, undirected behaviour is the complete antithesis of free will?
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That is one hell of an argument, CSfilm. It's a side of this discussion I hadn't considered before. Free will, then, would be random AND determined behavior, a paradox. Can such a paradox really exist? I would contend no.