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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:31:33 EST
- From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <93027.223133SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Credibility and Trueness
- References: <ewright.727932461@convex.convex.com>
- <1993Jan27.004250.17453@sol.UVic.CA> <ewright.728158167@convex.convex.com>
- <MARTINC.93Jan27144010@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <ewright.728178797@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V.
- Wright) says:
-
- >Psychology denies the existance of free will because its very
- >existance is incompatible with the concept. Once you recognize
- >that human beings have free will, you can explain any human
- >behavior with one simple explanation: he chose to do it. All
- >the ids, egos, superegos, hobgoblins, and supernatural forces
- >that fill psychology books become superfluous. (And the writers
- >of those books lose their source of income.)
-
- Ed, when one is out picking berries, and walks round a corner
- of this big tangled mess of bushes, and about 15 feet away
- is a big boar bear, rearing up on his hind legs and making
- that grunted bark/couch nosise that is bear-talk for 'who the
- fuck are _you_?' with heavy undertones of 'these are *my* berries',
- what has the little voice in the back of your head yelling 'RUN!'
- got to do with free will? (The alternative little voice that
- goes 'bye!' just as you start to crumple up in a dead faint can
- be substituted if you like.)
-
- Graydon
-