The philosophical debate whether human actions are predetermined or whether they are the result of free choice dates back to ancient times and has not yet been resolved. A different philosophical controversy relates to the right of an individual to free will and autonomy. Important issues in medicine are dependent on the approach to these dilemmas. The purpose of this article is to analyze the ...

Since the popularity of internet and new communication technologies, the issue of information sharing has become a matter of debate. In digital world, distances are meaningless and Information could be transferred to different parts of the world in few seconds. In this paper we discuss the effect of new technologies on licensed information and copyright law. We take this position that in modern...

A common feature of free will is that a person has choices among alternative actions and chooses the action with the apparently most preferred consequences. In a determinist theory, the mechanism that makes the choice among the alternatives is determinist. The sensation of free will comes from the fact that the mechanism that generates the choices uses a non-determinist theory as a computationa...