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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (26162)	9/7/2001 12:10:27 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I am thinking of things like this: I do not believe that science can offer a comprehensive account of human behavior that would exclude the operation of free will. It might try, of course, on the grounds that free will cannot be justified in a mechanistic universe, or that it is merely randomization in a quantum universe, rather than true self- determination. It can say that free will is merely apparent, not real. But I think that is bogus, and a philosophical account that is at least as valid would allow for free will. So there are some necessary points of competition, when science insists that the naturalistic explanation of free will or morality is sufficient.......