File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9802, message 155


Date: Fri, 6 Feb 98 14:46:00 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: abortion







		C. Schwartz,



	It seems fairly clear to me that free will is a function of chaos. 
We do not live in a deterministic universe because the position and
direction of its tiny particles - like electrons - cannot be determined
simultaneously.  When one is looking for non-determinism, why not go to
the biggest universal source? 



	If we have to deal with electrons from random neurons firing all
the time, we have to "decide" how to cope with that phenomenon
*internally* - because it comes about internally.  That creates patterns
of thought that are unique to individuals.  That means both that
individuals will react differently to stimuli that are universal among a
group of individuals *and* that they will simultaneously be creating their
own stimuli and their own causes of thought and action.  This process of
random patterns created by previous self-generated stimuli plus current
self-generated stimuli gives force to uniqueness of though and action
against a normative world (if the world is in fact normative). 
Dialectics, looked at from a certain angle, fit well into this scheme.
They portray our world as *reacting" to constant change and trying to make
the best system out of it, rather than following a particular path based
on deterministic truths.





	peace





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