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- From: denmckinnon@halls1.cc.monash.edu.au (NEIL MCKINNON)
- Subject: Re: Free will
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- References: <1992Jul22.075422.27506@a.cs.okstate.edu> <1992Jul22.125508.10715@pellns.alleg.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:50:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.125508.10715@pellns.alleg.edu> frisinv@pell50.alleg.edu(Vincent Frisina) writes:
- >From: frisinv@pell50.alleg.edu(Vincent Frisina)
- >Subject: Re: Free will
- >Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:55:08 GMT
-
- > I still disagree that there is a conflict. The kind of demterminism you
- >need to destroy free will doesn't exist at all on the microscopic level or
- >in a macroscopic living system. Use whatever laws of physics or biology
- >you wish; you will havbe no idea what I will do next. You could apply
- >psychology, sociology, or any other socxial science but they arfe far from
- >deterministic.
- > The physics in a biology text offers no determinism either. It
- >predicts nothing about the organism's action. Physics is still at peace
- >with free will.
- >---
- >Vince
-
- Nob,
- To deny that the "kind of determinism you need to
- destroy freewill" does not exist purely on the supposition that our known
- physical and social sciences are unable to predict human action, is indeed
- fallacious. The question you must ask you Nobby self is whether if we knew
- every physical aspect of the human body, would we then be able to predict
- human action. Current Neurology suggests that we just might?
-
- Yours Tony (using neils password so don't blame him Nob.)
-