[AGL] free will or no free will

[Jon Ford]

I'm with Stuart! If Ewie wants to believe (knowing that he really isn't free 
to choose) that there is no free will, in the privacy of his own home (or 
out in the street), "That's O.K.!"

Jon

>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 
>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 
>60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>Subject: [AGL] free will or no free will
>Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:41:51 -0600
>
>Ewie,
>
> >Pretty good deconstruction Mike.
>If you want wisdom you first have to get rid
>of delusions.  One delusion that should go
>first is that one has free will.
>
>Here's a thought experiment. Driving home
>caught in traffic and there being an alternative
>route to try and beat the traffic with, one
>decides (believes she decides but is mistaken)
>not to try it. Soon after, on another day, she
>decides (believes she decides but is mistaken)
>to try the alternative route and takes it.
>
>The phrase in parenthesis is your no free will
>view, that something other than her free will
>made her do what she did.
>
>The true answer to whether we have or dont
>have free will is not accessible to humans
>unless by revelation. Your mantra that there
>is a first of all and that first of all is that free
>will is a delusion is something out of a book,
>unprovable, and not an issue in real life, mine
>or Michele's.
>
>As Stuart Smiley says "But that's okay. . ."
>
>Mike
>

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