Don't worry: only 2/7 of my immediate family is not devoutly
Roman Catholic. Maybe I'll change my name as well. Anyway...
I'm afraid the arguments that try to make freewill follow from
Godel are beyond me.
My own thoughts on the subject are few, but I have wondered if:
a deterministic self-aware system living in a quantum (uncertain)
world, would be indistinguishable from a freewilled being living
in a deterministic world. (That is only speculatory.)
This might be similar to what you were saying originally,
or perhaps to what your dad was saying over lunch.
- JPSchneider
- jschneid@hanoverdirect.com