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Old 09-08-2008, 10:35 PM   #4
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Because free will would be quite a bit beyond the process.
I think you vastly underestimate the process, and vastly overestimate what it takes to create the appearance of a free will.
What nature, or God if you prefer, is able to create is so much greater than what is required just to build a robot that thinks it can make decisions.
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