Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.religion Subject: Re: Rosen on reason, etc. Message-ID: <5055@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 09:08:10 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5055 Posted: Wed Feb 13 09:08:10 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 09:08:10 EST References: <756@wucs.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 16 I am going to try a simpler version of Paul's argument. Rich can try to find the problem with this one. What is logically wrong wiht the assumption that ``free will'' [defined as the ability to make choices and thus self-determine certain events which have an effect on one's life] like ``language ability'' is a ``power'' that manifests itself in human beings during their lifetime? Why does there have to be a ``ghost in the machine'', or, alternately, no ability to effect changes by choice in one's life? That I started out as an undifferentiated cell zygote that did not have language ability does not mean that I had to stay that way -- why is ``free will'' any different? Laura Creighton utzoo!laura