[MD] Animate vs inanimate

[David M]

Hi Case

>
> Still it is clear to me that higher forms of awareness and functioning 
> grow
> out of the inanimate. Some around here, you for example, seem to think 
> that
> there is some higher form of consciousness using us as Playdough. This 
> just
> seems like wishful thinking. It allows us to escape responsibility for
> establishing our own purpose but claiming purpose exists somewhere else 
> and
> is being handed to us.
>


DM: I certainly would not like to look at human choices as anything
other than fully free, although we do are not fully authors of the 
circumstances
and possibles that we find ourselves torn between, but given whatever our
choices are we are free to choose between them. Given this view is god
excluded, not if god is ingredient to this human being, indistinguishable,
and far from omniscient and omnipotent. Perhaps as bounded as we are.

DM