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To: Bon mots

Interesting video...the guy lets out a really good fart @ :30 seconds in.


37 posted on 06/22/2012 4:12:41 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Tainan

The fart is a punctuation mark for his thoughts on free will, which are all negative. It’s interesting how behavioral scientists are so dismissive of the concept of free will. Are they so stupid as to miss the logical conclusion of that dismissiveness, that if there is no free will then none of their own ideas are freely chosen thoughts but are instead mere puppet-prattle that they are engaging in without any thought at all?

It’s always struck me that arguments against free will are always arguments in favor of the proposition that the person making that argument is a mindless automaton repeating something handed down to him by some random (or directed) source.

None of which takes away from the interesting story he tells of his research with rats, research that is obviously conducted by free-will-wielding humans.


40 posted on 06/22/2012 4:39:49 AM PDT by samtheman (If we want Obamugabe out, we must vote him out.)
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