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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2957)	10/30/2000 9:26:19 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I think that the will is the single greatest determining factor of my reality. I sort of agree, but sort of don't. I see two problems. 1) Your will may affect your life but is powerless to affect most things, like the average distance to the moon or something. The fact that you live with yourself every day makes your concerns seem much more pervasive than they really are. This may make your will the greatest factor in your reality, but not the greatest factor in reality. 2) How much of your will do you actually choose. If I don't want to buy a car, I don't read the car classifieds. . There are likely thousands of decisions that you make in which you appear to have free will but will in fact make the decision in a predictable and consistant procedure. This has been shown by studies of identical twins raised apart who wind up making many of the same decisions, especially the important ones, although they have no contact. Still, I am a believer in free will since even the smallest independant decisions will be ampified by chaos into a significant result. TP