Dare I point out,
that this weeks BBC "In Our Time"
is on the subject of "probability"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime.shtml
Ian

On 5/29/08, Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Platt]
> But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable,
> one's behavior is free.
>
> [Arlo]
> You've stated before that "only man responds to Dynamic Quality". Does this
> mean that man's behavior is the only thing in the universe that is not
> deterministic?
>
> If not, since you've said a cat cannot respond to Dynamic Quality, how is
> his behavior "free"? Or is your cat governed strictly by deterministic laws?
>
> Or are you going to say now, and agree with me, that your cat can indeed
> respond to DQ (making it "free" from deterministic laws, albeit "less free"
> than man whose respond to DQ includes social and intellectual level
> affordances)?
>
> So which is it? Is your cat's behavior "free"? If so, is it because it can
> "follow Dynamic Quality"? And if not, how else can it be "free"?
>
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