On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:01, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>
> Which brings me to a variant of that argument, called Sipfle's Wager
> (after prof. David Sipfle of Carleton). It's the same basic argument,
> applied to free will.
>
> Breaks down to three cases:
^^^^^
>
> 1. Free will exists, and you choose to believe otherwise.
>
> 2. Free will does not exist, and you're predestined to believe in
> free will.
>
> 3. Free will exists, and you choose to believe in free will.
>
> 4. Free will does not exist, and you predestined to not believe in
> free will.
Oh.. looky, we get a fourth case for free! :)
I find these black and white arguments amusing, mainly because I don't
live in a black and white world. I believe in both free will and
predetermination.[1]
[1] I believe that some key things are predetermined, but there are an
incredibly large (possibly infinite) variety of ways for us to arrive at
those key points.
Jag