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- From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 14:27:43 GMT
- Subject: Re: Free will
- Message-ID: <10190037@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- In talk.philosophy.misc, tmkst6+@pitt.edu (Theodore M Kostek) writes:
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- >
- > I've been wondering how to reconcile free will with physics, and for
- > that matter social/psychological forces as well. IMHO, people are
- > largly the reasult of the forces acting on them from society. Also,
- > science seems to ready to explain everything, utlimately in terms of
- > physics. I admittedly don't know much about quantum mechanics and modern
- > physics, but does this mean that I am just a bunch of statistical
- > accidents?
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- Study chaos theory. It may be that physics will be able to
- explain but not predict. This may preserve free will.
-
- doug
-