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Originally Posted by kschmidt91  But in knowing what the hippo does I have taken away part of free will. I know the hippo will go drink at such and such a time. So that means it will drink. I haven't made it choose... | (Emphasis my own)
You answered your own question again. You didn't make it choose; you didn't make it do anything! Quote: |
...but I have taken away it's ability to make another choice.
| But you just said that you didn't do anything.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |