Path: utzoo!hoptoad!laura From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: Individualism - Reality or Myth? Message-ID: <4315@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 4 Apr 88 22:48:44 GMT References: <779@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <1081@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <7705@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4344@chinet.UUCP> <4283@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 14 Reply to John Morrow: Do you believe in artificial intelligence? Do you think you have a self? I don't think that your brain makes you a self, I think that your brain (and the rest of your body) *is* yourself. Can you think of yourself as an emerging property of the chemistry of the brain? Try to think of free will the same way. By the way, this discussion of free will has been going on for more than two years in talk.philosophy... Laura -- Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. Laura Creighton uunet!hoptoad!laura utzoo!hoptoad!laura sun!hoptoad!laura toad@toad.com