[ExI] free-will, determinism, crime and punishment.

Randall Randall randall at randallsquared.com
Sat Aug 18 18:25:51 UTC 2007


On Aug 18, 2007, at 12:08 PM, John K Clark wrote:
> gts Wrote:
>
>> Presumably post-humans will not have reptilian natures!
>
> I don't presume that at all. The reptilian part of the brain must  
> be doing
> something very important if Evolution has kept it around for half a  
> billion
> years.

Feathers are important for birds, too, but that's
no reason to put them on airplanes.

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Randall Randall <randall at randallsquared.com>
"In just the past few centuries, and primarily in only
  one or two parts of the world, we suddenly develop
  medical science, cars, telephones, airplanes,
  refrigeration, central heating, electrical power,
  computers, and spaceships. Why here? And why now?"





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