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Hi dig,

Have you read Steven Pinker?

He has a whole book called The Blank Slate which discusses this stuff.

Here's a wikipedia summary. It's worth a read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate


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Free will and disability
By: DigSpace
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Tue, 28 Aug 12 1:50 AM
Msg. 09636 of 54959

Do we assign fault to the autistic girl (most are boys 4x, but lets go with a girl) for their decidedly inappropriate behavior. Do we say: norms are this, you are that, you are in error.

Or do we go all liberal: you are unique, we observe and respect your circumstance, we suppress the rules of judgement we might otherwise apply.

If single human sequencing routinely provides a strict observable physical chemical rational for anything, asocial autism, asocial mass-murder, asocial Wavebashing ... are we left with the general notion of the "individual" responsible for free will or are we left with a collection of automatons purely disposed by biochemistry.

Does alea have no choice but to be the decent person we observe.

If individual sequencing shows this, what is self? What is morality? Are we really just expressions of a hard wire? Certainly we all know that the Dig Space is a singularity above and beyond all of this, that the Dig Space is transcendent, but the single sequencing data is inclined to resolve toward the awk being simply hampered by a duplication on chromosome 7, the 24601 being .... well I don't know but you get the point.


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