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Re: the limits of free will

Jan 09, 1997 09:20 PM
by Tom Robertson


On Wed, 8 Jan 97, John Straughn <JTarn@envirolink.org> wrote:

>You say that free will has nothing to do with evolution.  

I didn't mean to.  In that certain ways of evolving are seen as the best
alternative, they are chosen.


>But don't we, as individual monads ourselves, have the power to control >our own evolution?  

The problem I have with free will is that it is impossible to choose an
alternative which is regarded as anything but the best alternative, and I
don't see how perception of the value of alternatives is subject to free
will.  


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