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Luc · 2010-08-25 · Original thread
'Freedom evolves' by Daniel Dennett deals with this. http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Evolves-Daniel-C-Dennett/dp/01...

Our future may be fixed, but our nature is not. We don't have a 'God's eye view' that sees all our past and future laid out before us. From our perspectives conditions change and we change to adapt to them to the extent possible.

It seems to me the confusion mainly arises if you consider your mind as being not subject to nature's laws...

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