There is none. Any test requiring me to choose between two alternatives may just as well have a determined outcome as a freely chosen one. That's why I say it must be assumed as an axiom.
By it, do you mean you must assume you only have free will, or that in addition to yourself, you must assume that some other living beings have free will as well?
If you say you must assume that some other living beings have free will, I must ask why? If there is no objectively verifiable evidence, what is the logical imperative that you must assume some other living beings have free will? I see no logical reason why you must assume the persons you converse with have free will.
I'm a rational man, and I want some evidence or some solid logical argument before I will believe that something exists.
227 posted on 2/21/02 4:22 PM Pacific by PatrickHenry