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On 19 Aug 2001, at 21:33, Kenneth Van Oost wrote:
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> From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
> : Re: Morphic fields
> If an organism is at a certain size scale, it must do certain things
> because of the way the world is. These, as you say, are constants, as
> much a property of the universe as a vortex round a plughole,
> therefore outside the realms of which you speak. If he's 'branched
> out' into MR, which I'm not sure that he has, then that's a pity.
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> Hi Chris,
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> This may sound as a daft question, but are you talking about Goodwin
> here or about people in general !? If it would be the last, would that
> than mean, in a sense, that we humans have no free will due that we
> must do certain things because of the way the world is !? Morphic
> realm or not, if structures whatever they may be are constants that
> would undermine our understanding of free will, not !?
>
Our freedom lies within a fied of possibilities, circumscribed by non-
possibilities. This has nothing to do with morphic anything; due to
our size, we cannot stride over mountains unaided by flying
machines, or view bacilli without a microscope; we cannot see in
the ultraviolet or infrared spectrum or hear below 20 or above 20k
hz. We cannot simultaneously hold onto eight different doornobs
in differing locations with our two hands. But this does not mean
that we do not possess the freedom to successfully will our
choices; only that that freedom is absolute. But, as Maurice
Merleau-Ponty said, our freedom does not oppose itself to our
situation (our way of being in the world), but gears itself to it, and to
the possibilities within it, and it is among those possibilities that
we may freely choose.
> Best,
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> Kenneth
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