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2004-12-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Are You Free?
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Posted by tipper 2004-12-14 02:33|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 No I'm washing my hair for the next 2 eons.
Posted by Shipman 2004-12-14 9:09:58 AM||   2004-12-14 9:09:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 this is worthy of the sleeping child on the toilet graphic.

Compared to this woman, I'd say I'm free. Am I "Free"? But I guess I don't need to worry about semantics or care about this woman. My life was preordained good, hers bad. According to this article, I needn't concern myself.
Posted by 2b 2004-12-14 9:57:31 AM||   2004-12-14 9:57:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Are you free?"

No, but I'm fairly cheap.
Posted by Fred  2004-12-14 10:57:07 AM||   2004-12-14 10:57:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Soooo, is he saying that Libertarianism is fraudulent?
Posted by Pappy 2004-12-14 11:17:39 AM||   2004-12-14 11:17:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Believe I will exercise my free will to go contemplate this weighty matter over a beer or two. Hopefully, I will get drunk before getting too far into this. As Fred says, I am not free but fairly cheap also.
Posted by John Q. Citizen 2004-12-14 11:25:18 AM||   2004-12-14 11:25:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Reminds me of the Calvinist vs. Arminian debate.
Posted by eLarson 2004-12-14 11:28:59 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2004-12-14 11:28:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Even if you accept Borders' reductionist definition of humans as purely material, he ignores the insights from complexity theory re: how intelligence can emerge from the interactions of limited parts.

He's arguing about a century too late. Ironic that he thinks he's cutting edge.
Posted by rkb 2004-12-14 12:12:20 PM||   2004-12-14 12:12:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 If it is a probability that that I click on the Comments link, then it is a certainty that you will read this. So much for your free will. Hahahahaha!
Posted by john  2004-12-14 3:16:51 PM||   2004-12-14 3:16:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 john - I think that deserved the full BWAHAHAHA, heh!
Posted by .com 2004-12-14 3:26:35 PM||   2004-12-14 3:26:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I must be free, as I used my free will not to read this. It would probably hurt my head.
Posted by tu3031 2004-12-14 3:31:59 PM||   2004-12-14 3:31:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Descartes used to be, but now he isn't. And Bishop Berkeley's dead, y'know.
Posted by Fred  2004-12-14 3:57:38 PM||   2004-12-14 3:57:38 PM|| Front Page Top

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