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Article #8377Re: Free will and responsibility.
From: Chris Malcolm cam 031 667 1011 x...
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 18:58
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 18:58
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In article <54737@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes: >In article <386@edai.ed.ac.uk> cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) writes: > > > system. In fact, the reason why I sometimes fail to > > exercise my free choice to do the Right and Proper thing > > is that I sometimes lose control of myself, and am overcome > > by the determinism of some animal greed... > >Yeah, that happens to me too. Now and then my cerebral cortex >and my limbic system get into a contest and my rational mind >yields control to my pre-wired instincts. A notion I recall from school biology was that we have three nested brains: a lizard's brain, which provided the instincts and passions, a mammal's brain, which provided the emotions and moral feelings, and the cerebral thingy, which provided rational thought, pedantry, etc.. Before I get too taken with this notion, would anybody like to slander it? -- Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.edai 031 667 1011 x2550 Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aipna!edai!cam From: cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.edai 031 667 1011 x2550) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Free will and responsibility. Keywords: Self-Protective Behaviors, Survival Strategies, Devils and Angels Message-ID: <401@edai.ed.ac.uk> Date: 31 May 89 18:58:30 GMT References: <10333@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <3850@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <52019@linus.UUCP> <533@orawest.UUCP> <2586@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> <54737@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: cam@edai (Chris Malcolm) Organization: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Lines: 21