<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:29 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>And what if you had voices in your head saying things, urging you to do things that you would never even dream of, much less do?  </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I don't know <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>specifically<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>what I <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">would </span>do, but it would probably be a lot of crazy stuff<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, possibly dangerous and criminally crazy stuff.</span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>If we truly had free will we could turn those voices off, eh? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">We don't have total control of our emotional control panel, it will be disastrous if we did, but even if we had the ability to turn the voices off you couldn't do so<span class="gmail_default"> if you didn't first decide to turn those voices off, and if you decided to do so for a reason, if there was a cause for you to do it,</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> then you're a cuckoo clock. And if you decided to do so for no reason then you're a roulette wheel.</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>