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Author: ML
Date: May 24, 2007 06:53

On May 23, 10:56 pm, "Perplexed in Peoria" sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> "THE BORG" wrote in messagenews:c%%A4i.1062$I55.1020@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...
>
>> "Don Stockbauer" gmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:1179835052.664634.225750@b40g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>>> HHFW.
>
>>> (Humans have free will.)
>
>> Humans may have free will - but it is also possible to know humans so well
>> that you can know well in advance what they are going to do - say - or
>> think.
>> You may put something in front of a human - say a really interesting book -
>> and the human may be interested - pick it up - buy it - read it or they may
>> not. This is free will. But if you know this human very well - you would
>> know whether he will pick up the book and buy and read or not.
>> Thus the future is known.
>
> I'm not so sure. There are some situations (a scene involving Wallace Shawn ...
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