[MD] Free Will

[MarshaV]

On May 2, 2011, at 1:39 PM, david buchanan wrote:

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> MarshaV said to Steve:
> Isn't free will dependent on causation, and isn't causation, in the MoQ, an explanatory extension of a pattern?
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> Marsha later added:
> It was a rhetorical question.  I mean causation is pattern, regularities, convention.   Explanation relies on patterns.  Patterns are explained by referring to further patterns.  Patterns (analogies) all the way down.
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> dmb says:
> Word salad, anyone? 
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> When we're making meaningful sentences the order of the ingredients is crucial. That's why we put words in neat rows. When we're tossing a salad, on the other hand, we want the various elements to be randomly distributed in a mixed jumble. Fruit salad I like. Your sentences, not so much.


Marsha:
Right.  You talk of cookies & milk, arrows, runners, bullets, basketballs,  hockey pucks and logic chopping, but accuse me of word salad.   



 
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