-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 12:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] experience
[Case] > So if it is OK to say that magnets behave the way they do because they "prefer" to do so, is that equivalent to saying that humans behave as they do because their behavior is determined? [Craig] A better equivalency would be to say that humans behave as they do because they "prefer" to do so. If you nudge a rock off a tabletop, it will always fall to the floor. Saying it is always forced to fall or it always prefers to fall, records the same data. Typically, if you give a person a bowl of live worms, he will not eat them (reality TV aside). Nor will he if you punch him in the arm. But if you increase the torture, at some point he will. At that point you can say either that you forced him to eat or that he preferred to eat rather than be further tortured. Whether that point is predetermined is another matter. [Case] Well if you nudge a dude off a table top he will fall to the ground as well. Some human behavior seems to be determined in exactly the same was as a rock's. You also imply that human behavior with regards to eating worms can be determined by the application of sufficient force. Not a lot of free will going on is there? But this in more about the terms we choose to use to describe these things. The essential difference between rocks and humans in this regard as I indicated earlier has to do the kinds and complexity of influences that determine human behavior. 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
