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From: wex@ittvax.UUCP (Alan Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Causality in the brain
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Date: Wed, 24-Aug-83 15:21:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 24 15:21:35 1983
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Larry, you're arguing against yourself:

You say that you beleive in the principle of taking the simplest possible
explanation, and then spend 40+ lines explaining a possible chemistry in
the brain (which, by the way, you've vastly oversimplified, if not outright
mis-represented.  Unfortunately, I don't have my texts handy).

My explanation, however, is much more simple:  All this chemistry you mention
can produce an *urge* to act.  However, since I am not compelled (in a 
causal sense) to act, I choose not to.  Period.  The concept of free will is
far simpler than the theory of causal brain chemistry (which is not to say
that "I'm right, and you're wrong," merely to say that you're arguing
against yourself).

--Alan Wexelblat
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