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- From: bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: contradictory nature of free will and omni-anything
- Summary: Why for god's sake do you believe in free will?
- Message-ID: <C1Gu4G.LpJ@news.udel.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:41:03 GMT
- References: <1jkjigINNf5s@kralizec.zeta.org.au> <1jng1uINN43q@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1jng1uINN43q@shelley.u.washington.edu> jeon@carson.u.washington.edu (Sangyong Jeon) writes:
- ;
- ; 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.
- ;
- ; I believe even self-consciousness is physical phenomena, putting it
- ; bluntly, consequence of electro-chemical reactions happening in my
- ; brain.
- ;
-
- Argh, and here you sounded like such a sensible fellow! Yet you do believe
- in free will. Sigh...
-
- Ben.
-
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- Ben Williams
- bew@brahms.udel.edu
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- What we got here is a failure to communicate...
-