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Letter: I believe I'll have another drink, or maybe not

Published 31 July 2019

From Peter Basford, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, UK

Guy Cox suggests that the inability to make a decision proves free will exists (Letters, 6 July). A deterministic decision-making process can find the weights of multiple options to be equal and so be unable to decide. It doesn't follow that because I can't decide whether to have an extra pint before I go home, therefore I must have free will.

Issue no. 3241 published 3 August 2019

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