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Alexei Sharov wrote:
> >> Don Mikulecky asked:
> >> >"Can a system with free will decide to not have free will?"
> >> Of course! This is the freedom of committing cuicide either
> >> temporarily (e.g., going to sleep, to vacation...) or
> >> permanently (using guns, ropes, poisons, etc.).
> >
> >sorry, but that's too easy!...what about to go on existing without free will?
> >the self referential tangle here is not escapable.
>
> Don, I am not sure I understand your question. Do you think that
> there are no 'degrees' of free will, so that it is either present
> or not? If yes, then, I guess, you want to say that the decision
> to not have free will is like a "liar paradox"?
>
> -Alexei
Yes...you have it! As is so much else about the mind/brain problem!
Don
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