Jonathon,
When you say,
>
>Descartes might equally have said "I have free will, therefore I am"
You sound in agreement with my postings equating free will and
mind/consciousness. But I'd specifically like to address your further
point...
>The main point of this post is the issue of Free Will.
>The only free will I really KNOW is my own. I have no way to prove
>whether or not anyone else or thing has free will.
It occured to me while I was reading your post that part of the great
uproar/conflict on the area of free will is precisely because not everyone
HAS free will.
If free will exists, then one can choose to NOT be free. Thus one who
argues that everything he does is mechanistically determined and
consistently acts and thinks according to this dictum, has freely chosen
(albeit unconsciously) to be "determined". And thus cannot percieve free
will and denies its very existence.
Interesting. Free will is a choice.
jc
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