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Aduke.2041 net.math utzoo!decvax!duke!cjp Thu Apr 15 20:10:02 1982 Re: houxn.124: Newcombe's PARADOX ?

What is the meaning behind this contempt for correlations? What it is saying is that the oracle couldn't *possibly* have predicted what I am going to choose to do, no matter how much evidence I collect that it has predicted *everyone else's* move so far (barring the 0.1% exceptions). I must lead a charmed life to be one of those exceptions. The point is, the box doesn't *have* to be "changed" for you to be screwed out of the million bucks. The odds are, it was set up to reward or to screw you, no matter how free you think your free will is.

Personally, I think discussions of free will are pointless. It's a meaningless question, in the face of the impossibility of *knowing* reality beyond any limitation of what the senses can percieve.

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