Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Dr. Emmanuel Wu) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: freedom and reason (attn russ, rich, & laura) Message-ID: <909@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 13:05:39 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.909 Posted: Thu Apr 18 13:05:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Apr-85 01:26:30 EST References: <362@aesat.UUCP> <5272@utzoo.UUCP> <137@ubvax.UUCP> <5343@utzoo.UUCP> <883@pyuxd.UUCP> <344@boulder.UUCP> Organization: STRONGARM COLLECTION AGENCY: We have no slogan Lines: 31 > In article desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes: > > >> The knowledge base, the current chemical state of the brain, > >> results in a "resulting" decisions... [ROSEN] > > > >Prove it. Do you really know how the brain works? > > I read Rich's statement as having no intention of "proving" something one > way or the other. He was responding to a question about how a specific kind > of event could be analyzed without the existence of "free will". His > response was a very clear (and as far as I could tell, consistent) analysis > that did not involve "free will". [GEOFFREY CLEMM] And, moreover, the conclusion was reached WITHOUT forcing in additional assumptions about the universe, the nature of which, as I've already mentioned, revolves around the way someone would LIKE the world to be, also known as... This is why I feel the above view is more rational, more consistent, and certainly less presumptive. > >Please publish this information, so the rest of us can have the benefit > >of your supreme knowledge. > > I am sure that Rich will respond to this particular comment in his own > inimitable way ... This is as inimitable as it gets. Sorry if it doesn't meet some expectations... -- "When you believe in things that you don't understand, you'll suffer. Superstition ain't the way." - Stevie Wonder ("Superstition") Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr