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Obvious Leo wrote We can say that the behaviour of the constituent atoms under these conditions has CAUSED the water to be wet. However this property of wetness then becomes a causal agent in its own right which in turn CAUSES the hydrogen and oxygen atoms within the molecules to behave in a specifi...

The case for the compatibility of Free Will with modern science can be summarized very briefly: Modern science believes that the processes in my neural networks can make decisions; I am my neural networks ; therefore I am free to make decisions. Woo writes that alternatives are only apparently avail...

A very welcome article. Can I suggest a small refinement? As I understand it, in a chaotic but discontinuous system, it is the case that: >Small differences in initial conditions result in exponentially diverging differences in subsequent conditions. >Consequently, (1) whatever the accuracy with whi...