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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Science and choice
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.103136.19425@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:31:36 GMT
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- Shawn Green (greens@mentor.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec16.030334.20463@nmsu.edu> epowers@spock.NMSU.Edu (POWERS)
- writes:
- : [stuff about science implying determinism deleted]
- :
- : > So you must "choose": either you must base an important part of your
- : >philosophy on science and deny free will, or you'll have to find something
- : >outside of science to base it on.
- :
- : I will quickly admit that I am way out of my depth here, so maybe someone who
- : knows something can help me out. Doesn't chaos theory say that not every
- : event could be predicted even if you had perfect knowledge of everything that
- : was happening in the universe at that moment in time? If this is true, scien
- ce
- : would not necessitate a deterministic philosophy.
- :
- : Comments/corrections from any net.physics-types?
- :
- :
- : Shawn Green
- : greens@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
-
- Thanks, I was going to ask this question if noone else did.
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