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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1632)	10/12/2000 2:42:23 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

And now for something that may be completely unscientific: You and I have given serious consideration to consciousness as an ultimate field that may exist epiphenomenally through or upon the rest of everything. This obviously forces the question of free will versus determinancy. I was never comfortable with the idea of determinacy. It seemed erroneous, but how can one ignore the plethora of great thinkers that had convinced themselves of it? Lately, I have convinced myself (without objective evidence) that free will is what it is all about. What if I were to ask you to take a million dice and write a simple action on each di face for a total of 10,000,000 distinct actions. We then have these dice mixed by machine, and we take the first ten chosen. I am given ten directives chosen at random from millions. How is it that I am able to replicate these directives for every day that I live (assuming they were all chosen as practical possibilities). The only way the Universe can prevent me is through force (pin me under a truck--a beautiful women--something). If this is not free will, then, I would submit that deteminism has no practical significance in the deal, and that the illusion of free will is far more real than the conceit of determinancy, which is itself...only a choice