Free Will
Special care is needed when the choice being made for a decision can influence how an uncertainty resolves in the future. Having a perfect or imperfect information on such uncertainty implies that the choice to be made can be inferred prior to making such choice. This circular logic is against free will principle and thus extra works are needed to represent and solve for VoI properly.
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Famous quotes containing the words free will and/or free:
“The angels yawning in an empty heaven;
Alternate shows of dynamite and rain;
And choosing forced on free will: fire or ice.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I assert that the first, and fundamental right of every woman is to be allowed the free exercise of her own belief; and that free exercise is not allowed when she is in any way restrained either morally or intellectually.”
—Margaret Anna Cusack (1829–1899)
“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)