RE: Full circle
November 16, 2014 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2014 at 1:10 pm by IATIA.)
(November 16, 2014 at 12:59 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I don't think this counts as philosophy, since it's not rooted in any logical thought, or any attempt to understand the facts of existence.
Of course it does.
Either we have no free will and are simply a product of biochemical reactions, which makes this all moot or we have free will that must fall outside these reactions.
If we have free will, where does it come from. What physiological process could possibly invoke free will?
(November 16, 2014 at 1:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(November 16, 2014 at 12:45 pm)IATIA Wrote: Maybe I should have used secular or scientific etc.. I was trying to be brief.
Always a mistake. Accuracy is more important than brevity.
And I stand corrected.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
