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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Rosen on reason, etc.
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 09:08:10 EST
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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
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