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 word free:
“Under an accumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a free agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knocks him down, his destiny must pick him up again.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)