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I don't buy it. Bowling balls don't have neurons; ergo, they cannot think. This seems to be an important prerequisite for choice. I believe Descartes would agree with me. Spirits do not have bodies... and therefore lack neurons as well... Yet they are perfectly capable of thinking and decision maki...

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Cognoscente wrote:That's the railgun from Quake 2! Wow, that takes me back.

Actually it's a rocket launcher...

The quake 2 railgun looks like:

I always believed that only humans have free will . . . or consciousness, for that matter. I think plants are alive, and animals have an even higher intelligence, but I don't think they experience consciousness in any meaningful way. I think human beings are far less likely to behave rationally tha...

Having a democrat congress, a democrat supreme court, and a democrat president... VERY dangerous... They are going to be able to push through whatever the heck they want. The good, the bad, and the ugly... And trust me... BOTH parties have ALOT of ugly. At least when things are heterogeneous they ke...

I was wondering why you were using a URL shortener...

Well played sir... Well played...

Speaking of birthdays and presents and such...

I found the best present for Dragon Lady EVER!

It's a Dragon Lady Xbox Controller!!!

Lol Gio... But I prefer Tux... He's much cooler...



And I will not be attending seeing as I don't really know anyone

Very good, Fredjikrang. Going a little bit further, can we explain why individuals make the decisions they do, if it is not demanded by the laws of nature? What makes our behavior predictable? Could not each individual's actions be demanded by some sort of law? Perhaps, but even then, you have the ...

We still have choice in the postmortal life. We may not be able to change our natures, but we do have choice. We had choice before we were mortal and there is no reason to think that we won't have choice after. I was always taught that those we do baptisms for choose whether or not to accept. This ...

Perhaps choice is a artifact of living in a limited dimensional state? Perhaps choice only exists because we can only comprehend 3 dimensions (4th being time, but that's a special case) Mabye that's why it's so important for us to shape who we are now while we have a choice... i.e. Alma 34:33,35 Bec...

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If you really want to can attribute that to 361, but I think it stands on it's own.

Nope. I've determined that through personal and shared experience, and would suggest that is the only way to know. OK, so what are the clues that tell you that some things have free will and some don't? What is the evidence you look for, one way or the other. I'm arguing that a deterministic predic...

Thanks vb, I see your point and I get that perception of reality fixes it (in a Schroedinger-ian way). But what if you only had one red marble and I told you to pick a marble. Would you say that you had a choice, in terms of which marble to pick? I would say that I would pick up the marble. I would...

Still taking everything I say seriously... Mabye I need to start every sentence with an emotional/meaningful qualifier? Tentatively, this would be a good solution. Sarcastically, Don't be bashing Playboy... I hear they right very enlightening articles! Seriously, As time passes things which were aud...

but we are required to read it in our GE classes. im never required to read the DU (thank goodness). seems like a poor excuse to leave dino comics out of the DU if we are required to read dirtier stuff in order to graduate. If it's older than 50 years it's not "dirty" its "artistic&q...

Tribal conflict is a very strong tradition that we Americans have a difficult time understanding. I think Americans can easily identify with tribal conflicts... As humans we separate ourselves into tribes ALL the time... BYU or Utah? Republican or Democrate? When you first meet someone you exchange...

The problem with the simultaneous vision theory is that it gets rid of free will. If God can see THE future at the same time He can see the past, that implies there's only one future out there, and that means I don't actually have a choice in any given matter, any more than a bowling ball has a cho...

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:If you're talking about Oedipus, which I assume you are, it was actually Sophocles that wrote it... Shakespeare just make subtle sexual inuendos.

So it is.... My mistake... Lo siento

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