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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 03:11:29 +1030
From: William Henderson <>
Subject: parallel universes?

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From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Ventureville, CT, Free will


'Finally, Mike Riskin offers some thoughts on free will and notes that,
if
it exists, it means your behavior is unpredictable to a degree. The
converse, that unpredictable behavior guarantees free will, I don't
think
anyone would accept. In any case, being a determinist, I don't believe
in
free will, at any deep level. But I do accept what is called
compatibilism,
in which there is something very like free will and can be assumed to
equal
it for ordinary purposes, though determinism still holds. (I discuss
this
in my book.) It is also interesting that many-worlds allows for
determinism
yet happenings that, to the observer, are unpredictable. If you think
about
it (an observer splitting into copies, each of which sees a different
outcome) you can see how this could be so.'

Interesting, but surely, Mike, you don't believe in parallel universes?
William Henderson.

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