Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Re: Free will - some new reading.. Message-ID: <1503@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 02:23:58 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1503 Posted: Wed Aug 14 02:23:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 14:51:45 EDT References: <1420@pyuxd.UUCP> <27500090@ISM780B.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 21 > I suggest that those who have a strong feeling that RLR is unduly > monopolizing this medium and is responding in an philosophically > unsophisticated and ego-ridden way engage in an experiment: > refuse to respond to postings of his that have these qualities. [BALTER] I suggest that those of you who have a strong feeling that I am monopolizing thsi medium recognize the fact that if I get twenty responses to an article of mine, all giving obscure variations of the same theme (how dare you not listen to this author? how dare you deny the existence of free will? how dare you not believe my subjective experience as being real?) I am likely to respond to a number of them, sometimes saying the same thing (especially when they are received eons apart), and even more especially when they consist of ad hominem noisemaking. Like... Which makes me wonder why all the free will junkies suddenly came out of the closet so loudly and all at once in hopes of doing a "this will show that Rich Rosen that free will exists" number. -- Meanwhile, the Germans were engaging in their heavy cream experiments in Finland, where the results kept coming out like Swiss cheese... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr