Jim asked: "But would that not be true of any living sentient creature?
The higher the order, probably the more unpredictable?"
Possibly. I don't know or even have an opinion. Perhaps my lab is just a
"meat machine." But I am not.
Pim commented:
"Is that what defines supernatural? Unpredictable?"
I don't think I made that claim. Unpredictability is an outcome of having
free will. It is not, I think, a definition if it.
"And yet much of the commercial world depends on the predictability of
humans."
True. But so what? Much of what I do is sort of subconscious -- I think
the will gets involved only when decisions are made. That may be, in the
case of some people, fairly rarely. <G>
"Are humans not even in principle predictable?"
To a large extent, yes. But not when they exercise their free will to
make a conscious decision. Statistically, perhaps. Not singly.
Burgy
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