From: Doug Jones (random@qnet.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 21:21:09 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> Michael S. Lorrey writes:
>
> > Who ever said that free will = freedom from willfulness?
>
> Beats me. What I wrote is that you can't have willfulness and freedom from
> willfulness simultaneously. To be completely free means to be free from
> willfulness as well as it means to be free from anything else. So, as you imply,
> "free will" does *not* equal freedom from willfulness.
> Rather, "Free will" = a self contradiction.
> This is because "free" means unattached, not controlled or influenced by another
> force or interest. Will requires deliberate choice and is therefore not free of
> deliberation nor of choice.
> Will is bound to that which drives it.
> Therefore, will cannot be free.
>
> --J. R.
Tune in next week, extropikids, when J. R. Molloy logically deduces how
many angels can dance on the head of a pin!
Yeesh.
-- Doug Jones If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. -Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love
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