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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion
Subject: Re: Pfui
Message-ID: <665@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Summary: 

In article <1499@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
>All you've shown is that you have to power to want to condition yourself not
>to do something.  That happens to be great, and one of the best and most useful
>things about being human.  I wouldn't call it "free will" though.  The fact
>that it took time to squelch the desires and recondition yourself proves my
>point:  you cannot simply will a desire (!) into or out of existence.
>-- 
	Well, here is the main difference between us, that is
*exactly* what I call free will. I do not remember any proponent of
free will ever claiming the ability to magically will a result
instantly. That is totally irrelevent to free will as far as I am
concerned. Why should my inability to do something I never claimed was
possible have any bearing on the existence of free will?
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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