basically there is determinism, which states that things are all caused and therefore, with enough info, everything is perfectly predictable...and then there is the free agent theory in libertarianism, that states that we are not simply a link in this causal chain, and our choices just causes, impulses based on experiences of youth, etc....but that we have the capacity, albeit a primitive one to be the 'first mover' (Isac Newton describes God as the 'first mover' as follows: Something in motion must have been moved by something else, and that by something else yet, until the first mover, which can be called God, implicitly using the laws of motion and the conservation of energy to prove God)..
so we have a primitive ability, through rationalization, to selectively respond and react to every challenge s et before us.
Actions of animals are pretty much determined because their neural prescepts..."emotions, impulses" control them,
we as humans, can over-ride them
2007-04-12
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