Fat Tax

ILW

ie. Whether to buy a cake or a banana.

ninky_2

ILW wrote: »

ie. Whether to buy a cake or a banana.

if you say so.....

[gives up]

wotsthat

ILW wrote: »

ie. Whether to buy a cake or a banana.

I'd prefer a Greggs Sausage and Bean Bake but I don't know if that's my preference or whether that's a product of my genetics and environment.

ILW

wotsthat wrote: »

I'd prefer a Greggs Sausage and Bean Bake but I don't know if that's my preference or whether that's a product of my genetics and environment.

Their pasties are not what they used to be, seem to be less spicy.

mcjordi

ninky wrote: »

malabsorbtion was the first thing that sprung to my mind also. a little like putting petrol into a car with a fuel leak. mpg might come out as very high but you wouldn't actually be getting the energy output you might expect from the fuel.

come on it wasnt just me that had to look twice at this

mcjordi

ILW wrote: »

Their pasties are not what they used to be, seem to be less spicy.

Greggs went downhill went the stopped serving the bacon and cheese wrap thingys near me :mad:

ninky_2

rather than flogging a dead horse myself....

http://santitafarella.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/biologist-anthony-cashmore-thinks-belief-in-free-will-is-akin-to-belief-in-magic-and-we-have-free-will-genes-actively-deceiving-us-into-believing-that-we-have-free-will/

biologist Anthony Cashmore’s ideas about free will is at physorg.com today. Here’s Cashmore’s basic thesis:

In a recent study, Cashmore has argued that a belief in free will is akin to religious beliefs, since neither complies with the laws of the physical world. . . . To put it simply, free will just doesn’t fit with how the physical world works. Cashmore compares a belief in free will to an earlier belief in vitalism – the belief that there are forces governing the biological world that are distinct from those governing the physical world. Vitalism was discarded more than 100 years ago, being replaced with evidence that biological systems obey the laws of chemistry and physics, not special biological laws for living things.
“I would like to convince biologists that a belief in free will is nothing other than a continuing belief in vitalism (or, as I say, a belief in magic),”

wotsthat

Judging by the comments on Mr. Cashmore's blog alternative views are available.

ILW

It's psychobabble from people who make a living out of it. Virtually everybody has a measure of free will to make wrong or right decisions.

ninky_2

wotsthat wrote: »

Judging by the comments on Mr. Cashmore's blog alternative views are available.

alternative views are always available on every subject. doesn't make them right.