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From: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: External Influences
Message-ID: <243@umich.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 13:24:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 13:24:23 1985
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Reply-To: torek@umich.UUCP (Paul V. Torek )
Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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Summary: 

In article <531@spar.UUCP> ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) writes:
>   Still, I have a problem with the notion that freedom is self-conscious
>   rational choice. All that logic-chopping can be numbing...
>
>   The freest minds I know can be brutally self-scrutinizing as appropriate,
>   yet otherwise follow spontaneous impulse as effortlessly as a frog might
>   splash into an old pond.

That's *not* a problem with understanding freedom as self-conscious rational
choice.  See Dennett, *Elbow Room*, Chapter 2 esp. the latter part of the
chapter.

--Paul V Torek, the once and future "top 25" news submitter


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