Sunday, September 23, 2007

Free or not ...

... Seeking Free Will in Our Brains: A Debate. (Hat tip, Lee Lowe.)

I have only skimmed over this, but it looks interesting.

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  2. To repeat a slightly flippant line of mine, "Philosophy is the creation of mental problems, the solution of which is forbidden, unless the solution gives birth to a new problem, or better still, problems."
    Free-will or lack of doesn't exist as a problem until the reasoning mind invents it, and it's essentially a useless paranoid concept of an analytical mind becoming trapped in its own pathways. The ensuing discussions about free-will could be summed up:
    "Do we have free-will?"
    "I dunno, what do you think?"
    "I dunno, what do you think?"
    "I dunno, what do you think?"
    "I dunno, what do you think?"
    "I dunno, what do you think?"
    etc

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