[ExI] Social implications of widespread extropian/positivist ideals

jameschoate at austin.rr.com jameschoate at austin.rr.com
Fri Mar 5 20:49:34 UTC 2010


I see an overly broad generalization... that of making choices is free will.

---- "Jeffery P. Davis" <heavensblade23 at gmail.com> wrote: 

> I see a bit of a contradiction here.  If people don't make choices, then how
> can they can choose to become murderers after we do away with the fiction of
> free-will?
> 
> Free will may be a fiction, but it's a useful fiction.

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