[ExI] free will again

[Stefano Vaj]

On 4 March 2010 21:47, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> *************************
> Free will is an illusion, biologist
> says
> Physorg.com Mar. 3, 2010
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> University of Pennsylvania
> biologist Anthony Cashmore argues
> that belief in free will is akin to
> religious beliefs, since neither
> complies with the laws of the
> physical world, representing a
> continuing belief in vitalism or
> magic. He says free will is an
> illusion derived from consciousness,
> but consciousness has an
> evolutionary advantage of...
> http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=11895&m=21115
>
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I might be passing for a... wolframist, by now, but the way the NKS founder
deals with the subject seems to me quite pertinent and persuasive.

See http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-0750-text.

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Stefano Vaj
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