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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Acausal Brain Activity, again
Message-ID: <674@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 20:07:38 EDT
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In article <1523@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>was ultimately deterministic or not.  It is irrelevnat to the subject at
>hand, which is:  can there be a "will" that controls human action independent
>of the status of the person's current chemical makeup and surrounding
>environment?
>
	That is not my perception of the question.  You are making the
assumption that your definition of free will is the only one, it
isn't. I would say the question is "can there be a will that makes
decisions which effect subsequent events?"
	My answer to your question would be no there cannot, but
what does that have to do with free will?
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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