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- From: ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer)
- Subject: Re: the z/e/f's right to life
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.054635.10983@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom. San Jose, California
- References: <markp.727721748@joplin.wri.com> <1993Jan23.072420.17232@netcom.com> <markp.727976990@joplin.wri.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:46:35 GMT
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- markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
- >ray@netcom.com (Ray Fischer) writes:
- >>markp@joplin.wri.com (Mark Pundurs) writes ...
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- >>>Response to external stimulus != (reason) or (free will)
- >>Ergo, you have neither free will nor reason?
- >Reason and free will => response to external stimuli,
- >but
- >Response to external stimuli => reason or free will
- ^^
- I'll presume the above was meant to be "does NOT imply".
-
- Problem: given that you're only able to determine a response to
- external stimuli, how do you then infer reason or free will?
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- ray@netcom.com than lies." -- Friedrich Nietszsche
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