This is the sort of thing that drives behaviorists to be tower murderers.
"It asserts, roughly, that if indeed we humans have free will, then elementary
particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity."
First, what kind of a syllogism is this?
Second, valuable to whom? For what?
Third, assertions of free will in anything .... even humans --are not
consistant with materialism. Materialism is the doctrine that everything that
is real consists of matter and its relations.
Beyond materialism is only madness.
Free will is just a legal doctrine that allows us to kill people when they do
something we dont like.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Holmes
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 4/18/2009 8:28:20 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] particles have free will
According to Conway (Game of Life inventor), particles have free-will. See
http://kk.org/ct2/2009/03/particles-have-free-will.php for a summary and
http://www.ams.org/notices/200902/rtx090200226p.pdf for the paper.
Seems that every time I turn Netlogo off, I'm committing murder....
Robert
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