Vladimir A. Lefebvre (1996) Free Will and the Cosmic Subject
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Psycoloquy 7(07): Free Will and the Cosmic Subject
FREE WILL AND THE COSMIC SUBJECT
Reply to Adams-Webber on Human-Choice
Vladimir A. Lefebvre
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
VALEFEBV@UCI.EDU
Abstract
By using the anthropic principle, cosmologists leave a
niche for the observer in their models of the Universe. To fill
this niche one must construct a compact model of a "cosmic
subject." A formal model described in the target article (Lefebvre,
1995) can be considered one possible representation of such a
cosmic subject.
Keywords
choice; computation; decision theory; ethical cognition;
mathematical psychology; model building; parameter estimation;
probability; rationality.
References
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