On Jun 5, 3:14 am, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/4/2012 6:54 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Jun 4, 8:57 pm, Stathis Papaioannou<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> If you want to think that, fine. If it upsets you, I'm sorry. If it > >> upsets you and therefore you conclude that it's not true, then your > >> thinking is fallacious. > > There's nothing upsetting about it, I just don't understand how we can > > talk about deciding that we are powerless to make decisions. I'm > > trying to figure out how that makes sense to anyone. > > Brains are made of the same stuff as everything else (up and down quarks, > electrons, > photons). We have no reason to believe that this stuff obeys different laws > when it's in a > brain, from which we conclude that whatever brains do it's determined
insamuch as it is determined >by these same laws. > I'm happy to call that 'free will' so long as your not coerced (however you > want to draw > the coerced/not-coerced line). In which case, since we're not coerced, we > are not > powerless, we're just deterministic (mostly). > > Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
