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At 12:11 PM 11/19/01 -0900,
<font face="arial" size=2 color="#800080">Julie</font> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2 color="#800080">Is
anyone else wondering whether there is a link between what we mean by
"self-organization" and what we mean by "free
will?" Clarification about the similarities and/or
differences between these two concepts would help me understand this
conversation more
fully.</font><font face="arial"></font></blockquote><br>
We could get into terrible philosophical run-about detailing with the
peculiarities of the dialectical relationship of freedom and determinism.
But the simple take, so far as I am concerned is that freedom is
meaningful only in relation to determinism, and visa versa. So -- Free
Will only exists in a context which in turn determines our degrees of
freedom. Thus I am "free" to jump off a wall, if I choose to do
so. I am not free to fly to a tall branch. My freedom is determined by
the gravity rich context in which I live. And I would suggest that the
same sort of thing is true with self-organization. If (as I think)
self-organization is the prior (primal) condition of organizations, I am
free to cooperate with it or seek to dominate it -- but I can't avoid it.
Make sense?<br>
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ho <br>
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