authfriend: > I *understand* that Barry is deathly afraid to read > anything I write (and why), but others here have > answered his questions about free-will-as-illusion as > well, yet he keeps asking the same questions they've > already answered. > > Apparently he's also deathly afraid of encountering > a rational case for the illusion premise, because he > so desperately needs to believe in free will. So he > simply doesn't read anything he thinks might present > such a case. Rather than debug the faulty routine > he's created, he'd rather keep running it unaltered > and have it crash every time. That way he can point > to it triumphantly and proclaim, "See? I told you it > doesn't compute!" > > Garbage in, garbage out, Bar. >
"Determinism is the general philosophical thesis that states that for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given them, nothing else could happen..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism> "Free will is the apparent ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will>
