On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:16:06 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 3/9/2013 7:38 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> >> A person can resist their both their environment and genetic programming, >> >> >> And you know this how? > > > > Because identical twins can intentionally lead very different lives. We can > rebel against our parents, we can seek to compensate for genetic defects. > What is your basis for denying that we can resist given conditions?
But the twins cannot resist their environment and genetic programming. The way any system behaves is completely determined by its internal state and the external influences on it. You seem to believe that "intention" is somehow due to something other than these two factors, but what else could it be? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
