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Old Oct 10, 2003, 10:14 am   #22 (permalink) (top)
Geoff332
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Dawkins isn't a philosopher -- he's a biologist. I find his models to be far to tied to his pre-conceptions of genes causing everything (his theories generally end up being extremely reductionistic; which is messy). The line of his that probably bugs me the most is (from The Selfish Gene):
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We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
Your explanation does not get away from determinism. It doesn't matter if I understand how my brain functions (luckily, because I don't). If it functions and its functioning is fully constrained by my biology/environment interaction, then there is no free will -- we are blind robot vehicles.
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