<div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/docs/glymour/glymour-kim1999.pdf">https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/docs/glymour/glymour-kim1999.pdf</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hope that link works. I have posted it here before. Please read it if you're interested in this topic. Glymour is my erstwhile boss and co-author.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 11:04 AM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="color:black">A probabilistic version of LaPlacian causality may be more or less correct, but the number of levels at which one has to apply it in any complex situation makes it virtually impossible to use. An approximate approach like Glen suggests
may be the best we can do--at least for now.</span> ><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Use for what? Understanding what it might mean to be alive or designing a system for regulating the behavior of each other? Or predicting behavior? Or what? The impulse
that I object to is inventing an unrealistic fantasy like free will just for the sake of reducing cognitive dissonance. I can’t be necessary to adopt what amounts to a religion in order to function with one another.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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