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wedrifid comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 16, chapter 85 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 18 April 2012 12:48:39PM 2 points [-]

Upon further consideration, I'm not sure that's true.

I agree with your second thought. Those two don't qualitatively change the meaningfulness of the term.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 April 2012 02:27:35PM 1 point [-]

I had understood the intention of the free will solution here to be normalizing: i.e. we should end with the result that we have free will in every sense that's important to us. In other words, we can make decisions from our own character and reasoning, we are responsible for those decisions, etc. etc.

If all that's true, if free will is no less important and meaningful for all the findings of natural science, then why wouldn't it likewise be important for seers and prophecy?

Comment author: wedrifid 18 April 2012 02:32:48PM 0 points [-]

If all that's true, if free will is no less important and meaningful for all the findings of natural science, then why wouldn't it likewise be important for seers and prophecy?

Isn't that what my comment claims?

Comment author: [deleted] 18 April 2012 06:34:38PM 0 points [-]

If so, we have no disagreement.

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