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Re: [lojban] RE: imaginary worlds etc.



pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

>     <Foreknowledge, even perfect foreknowledge, doesn't imply causation.> 
> True, but to the point, perfect foreknowledge does imply the lack of choice.

I meant to say "choice", not "causation".   The point of the envelope
example was to show that even though I foreknew that you would take
the $1 mil instead of drinking the battery acid, your choice was
perfectly unconstrained by me.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter