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- From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)
- Subject: Re: Free will
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.150452.6646@news.eng.convex.com>
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- References: <3821@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <l7btbtINNjk1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:04:52 GMT
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- In article <l7btbtINNjk1@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM| tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
- |In article 3821@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP, tmkst6+@pitt.edu (Theodore M Kostek) writes:
- ||In article <1992Jul21.200956.13790@news.eng.convex.com| cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
- ||As I think about it, free will wasn't really exactly what I was asking.
- ||A better (maybe :| )way to ask my question would be as follows: is
- ||there something special about 'me' such that what I do is does not
- ||necsessarily follow from a purely scientific, physical description of me
- ||and my surroundings.
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- This was not written by me.
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- Peter Cash | (apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein) |cash@convex.com
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