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Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways.
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RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways.
April 3, 2016 at 7:57 pm
(April 3, 2016 at 5:12 pm)Jehanne Wrote:
(April 3, 2016 at 3:33 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: For you an illusion, for me reality.

Materialism is a bottom-up philosophy and not so much a top-down one; if you believe that you have free will, I would not want to disturb your conscience.  Taken to its extreme, however, the notion of free will would justify beating Alzheimer's patients, who are, after all, just "choosing" to forget the names of their children and grandchildren.  While enough beatings they would, no doubt, "choose" to remember?

Must free will be viewed in the extreme? Do all cases have to end in reductio ad absurdum?
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 8:37 am
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 10:05 am
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 10:39 am
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by deleteduser12345 - April 3, 2016 at 1:16 pm
RE: Free Will -- the "materialist string" pulls both ways. - by brewer - April 3, 2016 at 7:57 pm

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