Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!oliven!rap From: rap@oliven.UUCP (Robert A. Pease) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion Subject: Re: More levels of explanation and definitions of free Message-ID: <372@oliven.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Jul-85 11:40:31 EDT Article-I.D.: oliven.372 Posted: Fri Jul 26 11:40:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Jul-85 04:54:09 EDT References: <6156@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1041@pyuxd.UUCP> Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.philosophy:2131 net.religion:7286 > > You can't make changes in yourself if > > there is an internal conflict concerning the changes. [PEASE] > > But I *want* to want to like apricots. It would be real neat, I mean, if > the corner store had only apricots on a snowy day, I wouldn't go hungry, > but I can't get myself to even want to like them. If I am really determined, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I suppose I could learn to want to like them, and then eventually want to > like them, and then maybe even like them. But the fact that I am unable ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > to want to want to do this thing, implies something about human brain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > function that seems to bode ill for any notion of free will. > -- > "Because love grows where my Rosemary goes and nobody knows but me." > Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr No, thats not true. Who's to say what the real reason is that you don't like apricots. Not me. At least not when I haven't had a chance to psycoanalyze you. And as I said above (in my previous posting), you cannot make a change in your response to something when you have an internal conflict about making that change. From your paragraph above, it sounds like you have a conflict about it. There is an old saying that applies here, "Argue for your limitations and they're yours." -- Robert A. Pease {hplabs|zehntel|fortune|ios|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!oliven!rap