[Wittrs] Re: Is the brain a hammer?
- From: "BruceD" <blroadies@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wittrsamr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 01:18:33 -0000
--- In Wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "SWM" <SWMirsky@...> wrote:
> Is the brain a hammer?
It is more useful to think of the brain as a hammer that I wield, well
or poorly, then think of it causing the nails to be driven where the
concept of mistake has no grip
You deny these
> That we are programmed computers (in the sense of being automatons).
Make freedom consistent with causality
> That this is best described as a causal chain.
A causal account without a chain is an account too soon aborted.
bruce
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