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Old 08-04-2008, 11:46 AM   #123
Clodfobble
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
 
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Originally Posted by Flint
That doesn't excuse these "abstract" qualities from behaving according to deterministic laws. It just means that we don't understand the interactions that produce them, therefore they appear outside the realm of determinism--when viewed with our limited perceptive tools.
Except for all those things in physics that we already know about that don't behave according to deterministic laws. What if our free will is subject to quantum probabilities? Not only is it not pre-determined, it can't be determined from the outside... which sounds a lot like "free" to me.
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