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

To: E. Charters who wrote (7906)	9/10/2001 12:49:46 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

E.C. [Edit: I thought I disagreed with you, but I think I don't after re-reading your post] This randomness gives the powers of "initial conditions" enough force, IMO. No matter how determined you think the "ride" is, there is a psychological and physical component that affects EVERYTHING, but is non-deterministic and has non-local aspects. Your ability to respond, the response itself, and many other non-linear effects sum to be equivalent to free-will. We aren't wind up toys, we are complex systems. We aren't and can't be described as just billiard balls, but rather by the more difficult mathematics of complex systems.