(December 25, 2014 at 7:19 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'd say one is exercising free will whose higher functioning is not subject to the demands of instinct.
(December 25, 2014 at 3:27 pm)IATIA Wrote: And what lifeform would that be?
bennyboy Wrote:Anything capable of holding a world view and acting on it-- i.e. some people, sometimes.Just for starters, people are "subject to the demands of instinct", hunger, survival, sexual drive. Do whales, dolphins and apes have a world view? How about cats, dogs, parrots and ravens?
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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
