Apparently the legacy view negates free will.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> What does it mean to 'lose control' of something?
>
> Your car, your bladder, your gambling, your pet Rottweiler...
>
> What are the broad physical principles involved? What are we talking about
> when we refer to this, and why is it something that can have consequences
> considered to be 'serious'?
>
> It would seem that the legacy view is to simply deny that this phrase refers
> to anything in particular. All processes are simply probabilistic exchanges
> and clockwork mechanisms which are not 'controlled' by anything in
> particular to begin with.
>
> Craig
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