XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
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    David DeLaney  wrote:   
      
   > On 2014-01-27, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
   > > Robert Bannister  wrote in   
   > >> There has been a lot of work to determine how various chemicals   
   > >> can affect how and even what we think. We may discover that free   
   > >> will is an illusion.   
   > >   
   > > If it is an illusion, then it seems likely that we _must_ disvoer   
   > > it, doesn't it?   
   >   
   > Enh, it's just as likely that we're fated to never do so.   
   >   
   > Dave, and in the end it doesn't matter because we don't have a good   
   definition   
   >  of "I" yet in the "I have free will!" utterance   
      
   The past is memory and imagination, the future is projection based on   
   the past as you remember it, and the present is like milk. Past your   
   eyes before you see it.   
      
   Actually what you are seeing and in general experiencing is already   
   over by the time "you" are aware of it due to processing delays and   
   it's actually a prediction of what will be happening after at the time   
   you experience it.   
      
       
      
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   Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greed. Me.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)