Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1646)	10/12/2000 6:51:14 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

Just going out. Will answer you asap.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1646)	10/12/2000 9:52:31 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 28931

Perhaps we can do this tomorrow. Tonight is out for me. But I can lay a definition groundwork to see if we are on the same page. I see determinism as meaning that all physical events and human behaviour are determined by the necessary interactions of primary waves and particles as inherent in their motion and/or influence. Free will, I see as a denial of this absoluteness, and an affirmation of the ability of person (as agent), to influence events. In light of this, I propose to describe an intention (any intention), that I might have or think, as being something predetermined, and thus necessary...from a determinist point of view. I am ignoring the uncertainty principle as it operates beyond direct human experience, and addresses a microscopic time frame. If you need to bring it in, I suppose it can ride along. Do the above ideas seem valid to you, and can we use them, or do you wish to add or subtract from them?