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Article #648Re: QM and Free Will
From: Ian Sutherland
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:11
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:11
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In article <nyikos.720916492@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes: > But >occasionally we come across axioms that seem *almost* self-evident, >and we also have a strong intuition for the *consistency* of various >axioms ["large cardinal axioms"]. > >Now, where do these intuitions come from, if we are *only* the >concatenation of atoms blindly following physical laws? Uh, from interactions of those atoms? Seriously, what is it about INTUITION in particular that seems to you to conflict with the idea of atoms blindly following physical laws? It could be that having such intuitions (or at least, some characteristics which lead to having them) has some survival advantage. -- Ian Sutherland ian@eecs.nwu.edu Sans Peur
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Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,talk.philosophy.misc,talk.religion.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!nasser.eecs.nwu.edu!ian From: ian@nasser.eecs.nwu.edu (Ian Sutherland) Subject: Re: QM and Free Will Message-ID: <1992Nov10.001136.31220@eecs.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet) Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University References: <1992Nov1.102609.13247@black.ox.ac.uk> <1992Nov2.020038.19948@guinness.idbsu.edu> <nyikos.720916492@milo.math.scarolina.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:11:36 GMT Lines: 19