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2006-11-04 21:17:04 · 3 answers · asked by DREAMER 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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No

Free Will is being able to choose freely and this paradox is about selecting the proper box. It does not nullify Free Will it forces people to think and choose. I am not a gambler so I would chose the box with the $1000

Read this other way of explaining this paradox

2006-11-04 21:32:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

As a philosophical subject, the arguments are exciting and supply us each and every variety of recommendations-boggling what-ifs to think of roughly. As a pragmatic subject, it is consumer-friendly. i'm going to take the closed field, by using fact i'm prepared to wager the thousand funds that the Being's prediction will as quickly as returned be appropriate. Now if the open field is composed of a million/2 a million funds, then i'm going to take the two packing boxes. If the prediction is right, i could have a million/2 a million. If the prediction is misguided, i could have a million and a a million/2. the subject now for me is this: at what ingredient between the thousand and the a million/2 a million do I change my approach? I desire somebody might knock on my door to grant me the possibility to be sure. ;-) .

2016-12-28 13:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

it is just a bet a or b that is not free will it random chance the odds are fixed

2006-11-04 22:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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