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▼ NoME Part Three: Chapter 8: Session 856, May 24, 1979 4/30 (13%) Watergate President idealized nuclear fanatic
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Three: People Who Are Frightened of Themselves
– Chapter 8: Men, Molecules, Power, and Free Will
– Session 856, May 24, 1979 8:23 P.M. Thursday

MEN, MOLECULES, POWER, AND FREE WILL

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(The regularly scheduled book session for last night was not held. We sat for it as usual, but became involved watching the last episode of a television mini-series about events growing out of the Watergate break-in.2 While we followed the drama, Jane reported to me a steady flow of comments about it from Seth. More often than not he was quite amused as he gave them to her. She also picked up from him the heading of Chapter 8 for Mass Events: “Men, Molecules, Power, and Free Will.” We decided to reschedule the session for this evening.

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Dictation: Next chapter (8). Ruburt received it correctly the other (last) evening: “Men, Molecules, Power, and Free Will.”

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Both men and molecules dwell in a field of probabilities, and their paths are not determined. The vast reality of probabilities makes the existence of free will possible. If probabilities did not exist, and if you were not to some degree aware of probable actions and events, not only could you not choose between them, but you would not of course have any feelings of choice (intently). You would be unaware of the entire issue.

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