<div>On Fri, May 3, 2013 Gordon <<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">>> The matter in the brain follows rigid, mechanistic rules. <br></blockquote><br>> So many believe<br>
</blockquote><div><br>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. <br></div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
> This question is more about the arguments for and against free will.<br></blockquote><br>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.<br>
<br> John K Clark <br><br><br><br><br>