Re: Determinism

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 10 2001 - 13:08:36 BST

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    On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:26:02PM +0100, Vincent Campbell wrote:
    > Well, we'll find out in the sequel what he does with his new knowledge.

    Didn't know there was to be one. I'll look forward to it -- the first was
    great entertainment, and I liked its political philosophy. But I really
    wouldn't look there for enlightenment on philosophy of mind.

    > Surely we were speaking in hypothetical absolute terms here, whereby for
    > every action there is an optimum decision- in a deterministic universe.

    See the reply to Chris that I'm just about to type. (It'll actually go
    out at the same time as this one.)

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    Robin Faichney
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