Re: OT: Memes Vs. Free Will

From: Guy Macon (http://www.guymacon.com)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:38:54 -0700

Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> says...
>
>Guy Macon wrote:
>>>The independently generated behaviour *is* the free will.
>>>Just because it's random doesn't mean we can't *ascribe*
>>>meaning and value to it.
>> I am wodering on what basis you have concluded that it is random.
>> It seems to lack certain basic characteritics of randomness, such
>> as being completely unpredictable.
>
>Well, I figure that the quantum noise is pretty white, though
>that's a supposition. The behaviour we create is the result of
>heavy filtering through on the extreme inertia of the processes
>that produce it - our habits. Obviously the results are going
>to be pretty predictable, though with occasional surprises.

How did you arrive at the conclusion that quantum noise is the
source? Is this an attempt to escape determinism without
invoking the supernatural?