On 16 Sep, 22:20, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Pat, sounds like you're red-green colour blind like my son. ;-)
> There is lots of turmoils over his illusory view of free will in our
> house. But there is hope on the
> way:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/medicine/article6837392...
>
Nope, I'm not red-green colour blind to any degree. Althugh, as you
point out, if we HAD free will, surely your son would choose to not be
colour blind. But, I expect, no amount of such 'choosing' would ever
change the fact, thus, it IS good that they've found the genetic link.
> On 16 Sep., 13:29, Pat <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On 15 Sep, 20:32, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On 15 Sep., 21:11, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > > The FACT is, Lee, that the sun rises. That IS the fact.
>
> > > Ah, but is it, Slip? The fact is also that the sun does,not rise but
> > > rather that the earth turns. At least since Copernicus.
>
> > > Francis
>
> > Cheers for that, Fran. I would have piped in with the same thing.
> > 'Appearances' can be deceiving, thus all the turmoil regarding my view
> > of the illusory free will presented by a 4-D space-time. People don't
> > like to face 'facts' that don't already agree with their paradigmatic
> > view. It forces them to change their view, and most people, even in
> > ignorant bliss, don't want to give that bliss up, even if the other
> > side of the fence is no less green. ESPECIALLY, in fact, if the grass
> > is no more green. ;-)- Hide quoted text -
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