On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
> do you think I am trying to pretend that I am deterministic within my > own self? > I think you believe you are not deterministic and also not not deterministic, which is equivalent to saying I think you believe in gibberish. > > all my decisions and free will could be the result of a grand illusion > Free Will is not an illusion. An illusion is a well defined perfectly respectable subjective phenomenon, but "free will" is not like that at all, "free will" is just a noise that some bipeds like to make with their mouth. Cows make a different noise, cows say "Moo". > > > Why has evolution invested so much energy in erecting such a perfect > rendition of this facsimile of free will that is the common sense > experience that we all experience within ourselves? > I cannot answer that question because I don't know what the ASCII sequence "free will" means. John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
