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To: boris
When someone asserts that he has free will, I translate it into English as: "My outputs are not functions of my inputs."

Well there's your error right up front! Free will affects how such a person would react to their 'inputs.' Try encountering a dozen people at random one at a time. Give them the 'input' of saying 'Hello?' to each. Are their 'outputs' the same? Did their free will have any effect on said 'output?'

Gee, that was easy.

35 posted on 02/19/2002 1:05:32 PM PST by FormerLib
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To: FormerLib
I take it you do not believe in causality--cause and effect?

Or is causality only occasionally regnant?

--Boris

42 posted on 02/19/2002 1:23:44 PM PST by boris
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