[MD] Freewill

118 ununoctiums at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 21:13:57 PDT 2011


Causal web?  What causal web?  Not according to Pirsig.

Mark

On Oct 21, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Jan-Anders Andersson <jananderses at telia.com> wrote:

> Are philosophers determined to smoke tobacco and pose with pacifier pipes in their mouth?
> 
> Do we have freedom to choose to not smoke based on a calculation by our individual intellectual activity or do we have to follow social standards?
> 
> I decide to not smoke because I THINK that it is better. I don't smoke, therefore I am. It may be stupid but that is my way to use my freedom.
> 
> Determinism is FALSE because casual laws are incomplete and includes a portion of irrationality. This rip in the causal web leaves room for change and evolution. Without that possibility the Big Bang would never have occured at all.
> 
> choke
> 
> Jan-Anders
> 
> 21 okt 2011 kl. 08.09 skrev moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org:
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>> http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24354-free-will-as-an-open-scientific-problem/
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