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From: sierch@well.UUCP (Michael Sierchio)
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Subject: Re: Free Will & Self-Awareness
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Date: 13 Jun 88 17:23:21 GMT
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The debate about free will is funny to one who has been travelling
with mystics and sages -- who would respond by saying that freedom
and volition have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. That
volition is conditioned by internal and external necessity and
is in no way free.

The ability to make plans, set goals, to have the range of volition
to do what one wants and to accomplish one's own aims still begs the
question about the source of what one wants.
-- 
	Michael Sierchio @ SMALL SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS
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