Hi Ham, Ham: > Free will is the power to choose. It is unintelligible only for > determinists who believe that human actions, like all evolutionary events, > are the consequence of prior causes. > This would be true if human beings were controlled by their "beingness", > enslaved by their genetic propensities and biological instincts, or > programmed by a moral universe. > > Statistical conglomerates pay tribute to deterministic forces. But this is > not the case for singularities such as human beings who possess a unique, > highly developed, and sensitive perception of diversity. This affords man > the unique capability for enacting his intentions, which is the basis of his > active intelligence and which, as James Fletcher Baxter says, makes man > "earth's Choicemaker." > > The "singularity" I allude to here is that man is created as a > 'being-aware', an entity that stands apart from his Creator. As a free > agent of the Absolute Source, man has an autonomy that transcends the laws > of biological survival in the existential sense, as well as the "packaged > choices" paradigm of statistical probability. This is why Protagoras > declared that "man is the measure of all things," (an axiom that, as Marsha > reminds me, I incorrectly credited to Parmenides in my response to Ron > yesterday).
Steve: Do you see this "power to choose" as the possession of man but not other animals? Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
