[MD] Freewill

[Michael R. Brown]

Ayn Rand and her Objectivists - who, in Bob's terms, attempt to tame DQ by 
making it as SQ as possible - have a very handy tool for looking at these 
hoary concepts, like free will: ask yourself, what in reality (which 
includes our relation to it) gives rise to the concept? Why is it needed in 
order to understand something?

It's a very useful "razor."

Free will seems to arise to distinguish how our consciousness operate as 
opposed to the more mechanical sorts of causation, as with Aristotle's 
moving cause.


MRB
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