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- From: jeon@carson.u.washington.edu (Sangyong Jeon)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: contradictory nature of free will and omni-anything
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:44:46 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Attn:
- mikeh@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Michael Hore) and Ray Ingles;
-
- I think I have given you both the impression that I don't believe in
- free will.
-
- So let me state here once and for all that I do believe in free will.
-
- Actually that is one
- reason why I don't believe in all mighty god. (Oh, all right,
- not-so-all-mighty-but-mightier-than-us something may exists.)
- That is I am choosing the possibility of free will over god, because
- my picture of all-mighty cannot coexists with free will.
-
- Do I want to define free will? I'll have to think about it more
- carefully, I'll admit, you are asking right questions, Ingles,
- and appreciated.
-
- The following is response to Michael Hore;
- >
- >As I said, I think if you ask physical questions, you'll get physical
- >answers.
- >
-
- Don't say this to people like me. You know why.
- I believe even self-consciousness is physical phenomena, putting it
- bluntly, consequence of electro-chemical reactions happening in my
- brain. Also, (I am quoting you out of context here.)
- >...shouldn't we apply
- >Occam's Razor...?
- >
- my words exactly. No need to postulate god or "soul".
-
- >Cheers, Mike.
- >
-
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