Alan: [quoting CSW] See when you say "I happen to think we have free will, so any notion that we are nothing but determined masses of neurons bothers me....
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature1/ A great article from Nov. 04 National Geographic. The PBS link was very interesting. The photo's from...
"Many questions require answers over time." (Trinidad) "And some like "How do you know" are direct and should be simple. This is not simple for people like...
Freewill is not a choice. I believe freewill is due to motivation, having or lack there of. This theory applied, a persons choices could be made with ...
Monotheism argues that will pre-exists human awareness, and indeed that pre-existing will has caused human awareness. Science would say, only because it has no...
... Your selfishness is apparent. You waste time with your nonsensical comments that desire only to rip people. You don't, perhaps play word games (or are...
... What the F do you know, johnny come lately? The truth was not spoken by Dad but Louise; louise: over an extended period you have evaded direct and relevant...
My point was that freewill is not a matter of choice or environmental circumstances. Freewill to me is determined in the motivations of a human being. ...
What you fail to understand is that motivation itself is anchored in valencies ( bondings) which are set up early in one's life. <------------- get it? ... ...
... I ask a question and you give me a meaningless and rambling diatribe on nothing at all -- or whatever pleases you. From your assurance that you have great ...
Bob, I would ask you to name to yourself the number of security related agencys involved in Waco. I am sure you realise there are probably others. This was a...
It because of postings like this that I enjoy philosophical thought. Again, I see the promise of a new existentialism in the traditions of the continentals but...
So essentialy, you're saying our bonds with every essence of our lives determine our motivations? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Hello Siobhan; You quote Vickery on an early Faulkner criticism: "...Reason and imagination can prove an integrative force, identifying the interests of the...
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Trinidad, Just came back from a Freda Khoelo, Diego Garcia showing. We are in the possible throes of similar circumstance realisations. The exposition was...
Bill For me in a sense Dali made the contrivance art, and then attempted to use his art to make his life into a contrivance that then became art.In some ways...
No one knows what consciousness "actually is". Unless, of course, you would like to give us all a break and tell us. alan <equityplus@...> wrote: OH...
Conciousness to me is the self realization. Realizing choices, and identifying potential outcomes and consequences. [Non-text portions of this message have...
Great Definition in my Humble Opinion. Bob... (just a side thought do Apes know if they hit another Ape it will cause Problems and therefore refrain) ... From:...
Trini, I do not think of morality about this, it is probably a survival meme . It is not on the order of a natural law but learned behavour of a historical...
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Hi Bob; ... You need to look at the way you worded that...sounded like you were a proponent of such. Perhaps just my interpretation. ... May I only approach...
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How dare you two... ..Sounds like you are sitting on a 'curved-couch', and talking UnderYourBreaths... Why you are not 'fighting'--you are, rather...
