Re: Newcomb\'s Paradox
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If the predictor is infallable, then what it predicts will happen, period. If there is only one possible outcome, there is no choice.
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You didn't understand my previous post, I think. The point is that free-choice and predetermination are not necessarily at odds, at least in many people's opinion. That is, many people believe that God is all-knowing, and knows everything that ever has happened and ever will happen. At the same time, they believe God gave human beings free choice. I am not religious at all myself, so I am certainly not proselytizing (sp?) -- my point is that this is a well known philosohpical debate and you are taking one side of it. The other side, as illogical as it may seem, has many proponents. It just requires one to adjust one's concept of past, future, and causality.
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