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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: Open Letter to Professor Penrose
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 21:16:12 GMT
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In article <4cr8vj$b67@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>,
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>
>>I don't get it.  When I try to convince others of my views, I do so by
>>talking or writing.  Either way it's a physical act, and through a
>>chain of events induces physical changes inside the brain of the
>>person I'm trying to convince.  Where's the problem?  
>
>If you don't have free will,
>then the only reason you are "trying" to convince others
>is because you were pre-ordained to do so.
>In that case, why bother?
 
Perhaps because he was "pre-ordained to do so"?
As I have noted in another posting, your criticism misses the mark.

>The other guy's beliefs are also pre-ordained,
>so you might as well pour yourself a drink
>and forget about it.
>
He might, depending if he was "pre-ordained to do so".

>-- 
>Timothy Murphy  

Andrzej

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