A thought experiment:
If we could describe and predict the properties and behaviour of every
single elementary particle in, say, the solar system (I choose this
because as far as we can tell, the effect of elementary particles
outside the solar system on us is negligibly), could we predict what a
person will do?
Why? Or why not?
Cheers.
Fil
On 19 June 2011 09:28, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Francois,
>
> To be accurate, I should add that courts do recognize the agency or
> responsibility before the law of those special kinds of artificial person
> known as coporations or state entities. It has always fascinated me to
> note that when these artificial persons are found guilty of a tort or a
> crime, the penalties exacted are rarely in proportion to the violation
> of law as compared with a penalty that would be exacted on a natural
> person.
>
> But this is neither ANT nor metaphor.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ken
>
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