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>From: santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas)
Subject: Re: Causes and Goals
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In article <1992Mar24.130026.10219@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
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>                                                              I am hardly
>in favor of reducing conation to chemicals.  It is simply a dividing line
>between agency and its lack.  The alternative, which I am prepared to

What is your guidance for drawing this line other that the line
between life and its lack? Is there any reason for accepting this 'isomorphism'
between life and agencey?

>entertain, is panpsychism, and, perhaps more to the point, omnivolitionism,
>on which see Spinoza and Schopenhauer.  On this view, electrons certainly
>go after protons, and not just in a manner of speaking.

Certainly, but I find this point of view more consistent than yours,
although I am prepared to accept the former just as a brain exercise.

Philip Santas

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