X-Message-Number: 17924 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:23:37 -0800 From: Subject: Re: Pizers Questions 11.13.01 From: Michael Riskin Do you believe in free will at the conscious level? If so, you believe that you can, for example, make a decision to do something that is not always predicable, no matter what resources the guesser may have at its' disposal, now or any time in the future. Thats something happening without a certain and identifiable cause. If you dont believe in free will ( or if it doesnt exist) nothing else of relevance exists or matters except that during consciousness you feel better or worse. Do you believe in free will but only at the Human level? That also may mean that something can exist from nothing. Or does free will exist at all levels of consciousness? That means there never was a cause. It just always was. Finally, I dont see why the typical frustrated answer to these questions is that an apparant impossibility exists. Impossibilities can't exist. But yet they seem to. The other more likely possibility is that we are incapable of figuring it out, let alone understanding it, even if it were thrown in our faces, which it probably is. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17924