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They have packaged their arguments in an airtight mathematical theorem that rests on what they say are three unassailable axioms which happen to rhyme -- spin,
by andreyf 18y ago
They have packaged their arguments in an airtight mathematical theorem that rests on what they say are three unassailable axioms which happen to rhyme -- spin, fin and twin.
Aside from most discussions of "free will" arising from semantic confusion, I think pretty clearly points toward this being a bit of a joke...
- dfranke 18y agoIf you'd ever been to a Conway lecture you'd know that this is entirely par for the course for him.
- RiderOfGiraffes 18y agoKnowing Conway as I do, this is not only par for the course, it is actively to be expected. If there weren't comments like this then it would be a spoof. And there is no semantic confusion about "Free Will". The naming of the theorem is stated in those terms, but the work itself is independent of the precise meaning. That's why this is such an interesting result. The care taken to make it independent of the semantics attached to that term is, again, entirely to be expected, and makes the result compelling.