Sunday, February 15, 2004

Science and free will

Something I am not going to dwell too much on, since it is a very large question which cannot be brushed aside lightly.

In science, one learns to predict events and the behaviour of systems. There is always a hidden assumption that the system is predictable, if we have all necessary data.

Now take a human as the "system". Even if we don't have all initial data, don't konw all the rules and sufficiently poweful computers, is science saying that a human is "predictable" ?

If yes, where is our free will ?

If no, what kind of science is that ?

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