But I'll pass this time.

***1, 5, 5, 1, 9, 6

Do you think the above sequence of numbers is random or not?***

Taken alone, as an isolated series, perhaps. But if the process by which they were created and typed was not random, then no. You have to look at the bigger picture.

***You can't have a random set of numbers without a conscious human being thinking about them.***

Why not? Is it physically impossible for the universe to behave in a truly random fashion at the subatomic level?

***Can you defeat the computer to prove to yourself that you really have free will? Of course you can so what does that mean? It means no such computer can possibly exist. The 'predetermined' possibility is already eliminated.***

That's misleading and slippery language. It's entirely possible that the future is set but still unknowable to us. (I might add that the computer would still know the method by which you would attempt to defeat it if it truly 'knew' your brain)

***So free will is really the act of creating actualities out of possibilities...***

That's a bad definition. Natural, non-sentient systems can produce this effect as well.

• It was a teaser - aurino - July 9, 2002 - 13:16 UTC
  • Okay - stormcrow - July 9, 2002 - 15:01 UTC
    • 7 1 4 2 8 5 - aurino - July 9, 2002 - 16:27 UTC
      • Hmmm - stormcrow - July 9, 2002 - 17:17 UTC
        • Hmmm on this - aurino - July 9, 2002 - 20:05 UTC