"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> somebody wrote:

> >> Yeah, but not when it's "pick a random number from 1 to 2."  This isn't
> >> really what most people would call a "decision."

> > Why? That's the least of human faculties.

> Because there's no external information on which you could base your
> analysis.

Yes, if there's no outside information, there's no analysis to speak of
(although I am skeptical about truly achieving the premise, even in a
sensory deprivation tank or somesuch setup). Given no (outside) information,
we are simply talking about a RNG, or rather a PRNG as a state machine whose
final outcome third parties can predict before it is reached. IOW, this
experiment shows that humans have a lousy PRNG, which we already kind of
knew. I fail to see how it relates to free will one way or the other.

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