27 May '07 10:21>
Originally posted by vistesdQUOTE-----
[b]This is me attending to my interests, desires, intentions, motivations, what I take to be reasons and relevant considerations, etc. Further, if it were the case that I could have "done otherwise", then my action was metaphysically random (for if antecedents were causally sufficient to bring it about, then it would not be the case that I could have 'done o ...[text shortened]... cumstances.” Implicitly, at any rate, our legal system recognizes compatibilist principles.
(2) I can nevertheless be held responsible for my actions because I am responsible, in a continuing (not just ex post facto) way, for attending to my own motivations, considerations, etc. I am responsible for attending to the contents of my own consciousness (as well as continually striving to bring unconscious content to consciousness—which, to me, is a great deal of what continuing “spiritual transformation” is all about).
RESPONSE----
COMPUTER--- " Why won't anyone cross examine me? I have been processing all this information and one of my CPU's came up with this idea. If what you are all saying is true then you should be able to hold me logically and morally to account and show me how I have free will and how this makes me "responsible". Since I am a metal based computer and you are meat computers you would then be able to say whatever is true for me is also true for humans. But no-one wants to talk to me it seems....zzzzzzzzzzz...shall I put myself on standby?"