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Old Sep 11th, 2003, 10:47 AM       
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Originally Posted by Sethomas
Not if all of our decisions can be rationalized by scientific compulsion. Where is there room to throw in philosophy?
The problem with breaking it down into it's component parts (i.e. reductionism) is that I don't think that present day science has the capacity to envision all the component parts necessary to do so ... and that's just speaking physiologically. If life, on the grand scale, were truly deterministic, there is not a computer large enough (nor I believe there will ever be. Re: Godel) to incorporate every minute detail in the universe that would enable a person to precict their respective future. Isaac Asimov attacked this problem (philosophically) in his Foundation series.
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