Re: Newcomb\'s Paradox
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I have seen this question posed before in a couple of forms, and the real argument is "do we have free will or not."
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I don't buy this. Free-will and the ability to predict the future are not mutually exclusive. You just have to have a more flexible concept of time to accomodate both concepts.
I am not religious myself, but I think this idea comes up alot for people who are. That is, people who need to reconcile the idea of an all-knowing god with the idea of free will. And I know lots of people believe these ideas can peacefully co-exist.
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The free will thing is where the argument most often gets to.
If the predictor is infallable, then what it predicts will happen, period. If there is only one possible outcome, there is no choice.
I don't think all-knowing necessarily includes the future.
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