That's the end of cheeriness. -- Russ
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Robert Holmes <rob...@holmesacosta.com> > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group<friam@redfish.com> > *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 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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