[ExI] [Exl] Digital Consciousness

[John Clark]

On Fri, May 3, 2013  Gordon <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> The matter in the brain follows rigid, mechanistic rules.
>>
>
> > So many believe
>

And they believe it because nobody has ever found even the ghost of a hint
that matter in the brain follows rules of physics that matter outside the
brain does not.

> This question is more about the arguments for and against free will.
>

There are no arguments for it and no arguments against it because "free
will" is just a noise that some members of the species Homo sapiens like to
make with their mouth. Cows say "moo" and ducks say "quack" and humans say
"free will". It would be like arguments for and against a burp.

   John K Clark
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