Can’t Free Will and Determinism Just Get Along?

Posted in Philosophy on November 19th, 2009 by dispeopler

I have learned a lot in my long day of having a blog.  Things have changed rapidly.  I switched from WordPress.com to Blogger at one point.  Later, I decided to abandon Blogger because the interface sucks and host it on my own site using WordPress.  I’ve gotten five visitors and one comment.  It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure.

One of the things I learned was ‘link to a lot of other people’s blogs.’  In my first blog post, you may notice that I was goofing around and putting links to everyone and their mother just for the fun of it.  That strategy really paid off, and got me my first commenting visitor!  I went and checked out his blog and, as it turns out, it’s actually somewhat interesting.  It’s still a blog and has things like his perspective class list sitting in there for no reason among the more interesting things, but it’s not bad for being a blog and I added it to my links section.  Thus the other thing I learned was ‘blogs can be somewhat interesting.’  This particular person posts a lot of stuff on the free will vs. determinism debate.  Specifically he has a lot of stuff from the biological realm.  Just check it all out for yourself here.

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