[David M] Again you are missing the distinction between what is possible for us, with our planand actions etc, and what is possible/impossible for the whole of reality, if we are to tell a cosmic story of which we are only a part. If you consider this, like Dirac you have to ponder the strange capacity of a so-called inanimate nature (pre-life) to make choices about events that have mulitple possibilities. Could be random, but with life we gety agency, is there anything inbetween?
[Krimel] If we are to tell a cosmic story I think it should be our own story. In fact I think that is the only story we can ever tell. To say that nature makes choices is like saying that a tossed coin chooses to turn up heads. I don't think this is the sort of thing we do when we make choices and see no reason to suggest they are equivalent by using the same word to describe their behavior. As you say with life we get agency. Agency does involve purposeful behavior. But life, agency and purpose are emergent properties. They arise from the inorganic. But the inorganic is a pretty strange realm in its own right. 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/
