Information and free will (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Saturday, October 01, 2011, 22:07 (4802 days ago) @ romansh

DAVID: David Deutsch of Oxford (Physicist) on information has a life of its own and free will certainly exists:
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> > http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/38888?in=36:40&out=46:45
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> It would have been nice if David Deutsch had clarified what our wills are free of?-As I understand the problem, some studies of the brain show electrical activity before action, as if our brain or some other preprogramming tells us what to do. I don't believe a word of that thought. If I am going to move my arm I recognize that intention before I do it, and there has tio be some brain activity to cover just the intention. I have free will. I think what I want to think.


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