IUBio

minds and brains

TONYJEFFS tonyjeffs at aol.com
Sun Jan 3 05:15:03 EST 1999


In article <368DA7C1.1B15D892 at pop3.concentric.net>,
kkollins at pop3.concentric.net writes:

>The Universe is deterministic, but for Free Will to be
>determined, one would have to, simultaneously, know the "state" of every
>"atom" in the Uinverse, and be able to calculate the entirety of such
>with respect to any Choice.

Hi Ken, 
I don't see it that way.
We don't have to know the state of the external influences; We simply have to
understand how the brain deals with external influences.

I agree with Stephen's concise conclusion on this same thread.

I guess we ought to be discussing this on a philosophy newsgroup, but I don't
want to get trapped in a Chinese room with a bunch of homunculi!

Tony




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