Beware Edgar! You pulled the string on John Clark's back labelled "free will". He now will emit noise...
On Saturday, January 18, 2014 3:05:43 AM UTC+11, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > > > This has nothing to do with consciousness, but it may have something to >> do with the origin of free will. >> > > It's just amazing how many philosophers can devote so much time and effort > trying to figure out the origin of free will but never try even for one > second to figure out what they're talking about, what the hell the term > "free will" is supposed to mean. The first order of business should be to > decide what "free will" means, only after that should you worry about if > humans have that particular property, and only after that theorize how it > originated. Before any of that you've got to know what "it" is, and > philosophers don't have a clue. > > 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.
