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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Causes and Goals
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Date: 24 Mar 92 18:00:25 GMT
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In article <1992Mar24.150412.11325@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> 
santas@inf.ethz.ch (Philip Santas) writes:

>So for you a virus is going after something?
>And why do you reduce the problem to chemicals?
>Are the electrons going after protons? 
>
>Since you and M Zeleny agree on this model, I guess, you can explain why.

Please abstain from making such attributions to yours truly.  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
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.

>Philip Santas


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