Kindly comments on Two-boxing, smoking and chewing gum in Medical Newcomb problems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Unknowns 30 June 2015 03:47:36AM *  0 points [-]

This is like saying "if my brain determines my decision, then I am not making the decision at all."

Comment author: Kindly 30 June 2015 05:08:29AM 0 points [-]

Not quite. I outlined the things that have to be going on for me to be making a decision.

Comment author: Unknowns 30 June 2015 07:11:54AM 0 points [-]

You cannot assume that any of those things are irrelevant or that they are overridden just because you have a gene. Presumably the gene is arranged in coordination with those things.