<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I just want to know what the hell the term means. John</div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark </div></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:44 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dave Sill </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> Unless someone holding a gun to your head and making you use technology, free will isn't at play.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">Even if somebody <b>is</b> holding a gun to your head and tells you to pick X and not Y and you do indeed pick X you have done so because under those circumstances you wanted to pick X. Yes, if the circumstances were different, like not having a gun to your head, you might have wanted to do something else, but they weren't so you didn't. </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><div><br></div><div><table cellpadding="0" class="m_-3722655801600959835gmail-cf m_-3722655801600959835gmail-gJ" style="font-size:12.8px"><tbody><tr class="m_-3722655801600959835gmail-acZ"><td class="m_-3722655801600959835gmail-gF m_-3722655801600959835gmail-gK" style="width:495.333px"><table cellpadding="0" class="m_-3722655801600959835gmail-cf m_-3722655801600959835gmail-ix" style="width:495.333px"><tbody><tr><td>William Flynn Wallace <a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div></span>What does technology have to do with free will?</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Nothing, and it's not just technology. Until somebody coherently explains what "free will" means it has nothing to do with anything.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I'm not asking for anything as ambitious as a proof the humans have (or haven't) free will, I just want to know what the hell the term means.</div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark </div></font></div></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>
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