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i'm sorry, but i dont understand the question.
i dont understand what you mean by "free will"...it is a metaphysical notion, yes?
are you asking whether we are able to act without those acts being conditioned at one level or another by our own trajectory (past/history/memory)? then yes and no. yes we can act, no in that any action is circumscribed by the trajectory (human beings are vectors)...
or is this another way of asking about the extent to which mechanical causality can be mapped onto human actions?
speaking of which:
dilbert: where do you get the idea that human beings--or biological systems in general--are closed? this is one of the most basic transformations in theoretical biology of the past 30 years or so--that living systems are open, that principles developed in the context of classical physics do nto apply in the way it was once thought they did, that entropy figures very differently in the context of complex open systems that it would in closed systems.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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