Topic: Evolution
Quote: . If you can inject me with something that compels me to seek out and drink a coke, then I am not acting freely, and if I am not choosing to act in a certain fashion, then intelligence is not involved, at least not directly, in what I do.
Response: Well this involves the free will / determinism debate, you say you aren\'t free if your preferences are implanted... I say you are free when you act in accordance with your preferences, regardless of how those preferences were arrived at. I think to claim you need to "choose" your preferences is absurd, as the act of choosing requires prior preferences, which presumably also required a choice.... and the question of how we acquired our first preference arises...\n
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