Re: The Road with no Branches argument

From: Immortalist (Reanimater_2000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:18:16 -0700

"HERC777" <herc777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:d8422d00.0410281741.61fc88c6@posting.google.com...
> "Immortalist" > wrote in >...
>
> > Since Dennett wrote Elbow Room in 1983 there has been a futile, but still
> > on-going attempt by some physicists to answer this question by assuming that
the
> > brain is a device for controlling quantum indeterminacy so as to construct
> > behavioral choice. Dennett argues that such efforts to salvage Free Will by
> > finding a way out of the prison of determinism are wasted.
> >
> > Dennett discusses many types of Free Will. Many philosophers have claimed
that
> > determinism and Free Will are incompatible. What the physicists seem to be
trying
> > to construct is type of Free Will that involves a way for brains to make use
of
> > quantum indeterminacy so as to make choices that alter the universe in our
favor,
>
> 1983 Darn! I came up with these notions in 2000.
>
> Basically, in 1998 when I met Jennifer, I knew she, the trulady was my
> destiny, too many things matched the ideal women of my mind. I (Adam)
> was number 7 and she (Eve) was number 10, ala James Bond meets Bo
> Derek.
>
> Macro quantum entanglement makes it our destiny to meet, and
> ultimately to be together, but the Truman company prevents it.
>
> The initial messages I read "from God" basically, was to look at
> clocks when they hit 3:14. Mathematical PI, Adam being a
> mathematician, we notice these things.
>
> Then, about 18 months after meeting Jen, I flew across Australia to
> see her again. I stayed at a motel for a few days, and in the morning
> before going out to case her work, I would look at my watch and it was
> 7 minutes to 10 EXACTLY. The second hand rolled past the 12 as I
> looked. 7 to 10. A confirmation that 7 was seeking 10, that she was
> indeed my destiny. That happened not once, but twice in that few
> days, exactly 7 to 10. These kind of channels happen on a daily
> basis, I can even get people on usenet to ask me questions, I open up
> to a random page in a book and it tells the answer, its a bit like
> learning "the force".
>
> So in 2000, I thought mensa would be intelligent enough to observe
> these phenomena or atleast theorise a real possibility within physical
> laws, how can I have free will if I am forced to look at the clock at
> exactly the right moment?
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=numerology+predictability+vs+free+will
>
> my writing on "decisons being selecting paths in quantum branches to
> optimise humanity" date back to 2000
>

If all events likely have causes globally how do you show that particular local
events are not determined, at least by this global generalization?

> Herc

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