[FRIAM] alternative response

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Oh, Gosh. Ok.  [sigh] Back to the old Steelmanning board.  

N

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of ? u?l?
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 5:23 PM
To: FriAM <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] alternative response

Well, not really. You'd have to take the hike multiple times for you to have exercised any of your freedoms. That's a key part of the construction I offered. The first time you take that *particular* hike and the first time you step either way, there is no freedom. 

(Now, I included some scaffolding for arguing about whether or not you'd have freedom given a previous hike on a *different* ridge, or even the same ridge but 100 years apart.)

On 6/16/20 4:17 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks, Glen,
> 
> The following over simplification of your view is NOT meant as satire, only as clarification for my limited purposes:
> 
> I am hiking on an E/ W knife-edge ridge, uncertain which route to take down.  I take a step to the north, which encourages another, and so forth.  I am freed of the tendency to descend down the S. side.   One might call this "freed will."  


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