Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 30, 12:47 pm, John Clark wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 201 Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > You create the reason to act for many reasons, but you may not be > > determined by any one of them > > So the reason you acted was the reason you created but that is not one of > the many reasons you acted.

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Apr 2012, at 18:04, Craig Weinberg wrote: On Apr 29, 11:28 am, Bruno Marchal wrote: Biologist have not make life disappearing, they have truly explained the phenomenon, from other well accepted phenomena. But saying that AI or brain research can dispose of the notion of consciousness

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-30 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Apr 29, 201 Craig Weinberg wrote: > You create the reason to act for many reasons, but you may not be > determined by any one of them > So the reason you acted was the reason you created but that is not one of the many reasons you acted. Well I'm glad you cleared that up and made everyth

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Apr 30, 12:02 am, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/29/2012 8:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Apr 29, 11:40 pm, meekerdb  wrote: > > >> So why is it that some people don't feel pain? > > You mean physiologically, like Leprosy or a spinal cord injury? > > No, genetically.  There is no specific 'recei

Re: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not

2012-04-30 Thread 1Z
On Apr 30, 2:53 am, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/29/2012 6:37 PM, 1Z wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 30, 2:30 am, meekerdb  wrote: > >> On 4/29/2012 5:26 PM, 1Z wrote: > > >>> On Apr 29, 8:37 pm, meekerdb    wrote: > On 4/29/2012 3:22 AM, 1Z wrote: > > On Apr 27, 11:19 pm, meekerdb