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To: punster
Thre is evidence schizophrenia has a physical cause. Depression also has a physical cause.

And love has a physical cause, the universe has a physical cause, and we're all just machine made of meat. Right, drugs cure all mental illness, no need to become introspective and change one's life or consciousness. Oh, and consciousness is based on matter, too.

Yeah, right, everything's just dead meat. That's the materialistic viewpoint, that everything is just machinery and chemistry. No soul, no one really in there, no responsibility, no real choices made, no free will at all. Just chemistry and DNA.

Very limited and one sided (what to speak of illogical) viewpoint.

85 posted on 09/08/2003 9:12:17 AM PDT by First Amendment
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To: pram
"Yeah, right, everything's just dead meat. That's the materialistic viewpoint, that everything is just machinery and chemistry. No soul, no one really in there, no responsibility, no real choices made, no free will at all. Just chemistry and DNA."

We do not live in a perfect world. People are born with birth defects and genetic disorders. The choice people have is to make the best of their situation.

The argument of 'Free Will' versus Determinism will go on for eternity. Total 'Free Will' does not exist, because of the limitations nature places upon people. Total 'Determinism' does not exist, either, because people can make some choices.
102 posted on 09/08/2003 11:14:41 AM PDT by punster
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