Nor can you prove that you have one. Of course, asking me to prove that
you don't beggars the question of whether or not one can logically prove
a negative.
> Besides, if there is no free will, then there's no point to existence
> because everything's already predetermined and we should all just kill
> ourselves right now. Why not?
Oh, free will isn't necessary to me feeling a need to survive; as long
as "I"'m surprised by the next thing down the pike its OK. Note that a
lack of free will doesn't mean predestination in the least; Brownian
Motion is completely without free-will, each particle is constrained to
react in X way to Y variables. It is, however, always surprising to
watch the jinking and swirling of Brownianly moving particles, at least
to me.
Mind you, I'm not trying to dissuade you from killing yourself. I
encourage everyone to do so at least once in their lives.
[Anyone that commits suicide simply based on the weight of my suggestion
probably doesn't deserve to continue to live and reproduce (perhaps
especially the latter) in the first place; I'm now an agent of the
Selection Police.]
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Alexander Williams {zander@photobooks.com ||Member: Evil Geniuses
thantos@alf.dec.com} ||For a Better Tomorrow
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"Perhaps we should lower our mental trousers and compare the size of
our consciousnesses?"
-- Jan Sands to Marvin Minsky
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