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To: Heartlander

Free will is not totally free if physical / chemical agents can alter its outcome. This is why antidepressants come with a suicide risk warning.


12 posted on 05/10/2013 3:15:09 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett
...if all actions are predetermined then you cannot act as if you have choices. Acting is a volitional process of the very type you are denying. In your model there is no acting, there is only a differential equation of the universe cranking out its next time step.

He is so close! He admits that in his world-view everything is predetermined, but in the next breath he obfuscates that unsavory factoid by claiming that he can “act” as though he has free choices. He can freely chose, he believes, to pretend that he can freely choose.
-Nuclear physicist Dave Heddle


13 posted on 05/10/2013 3:24:07 PM PDT by Heartlander (Practice makes perfect if you mess up a few letters)
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