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Every natural cause must have a cause, until we ascend to the first cause, which is uncaused, and operates not by necessity but by will" (Reid, 1785, p. More generally, any scientifically sound and complete explanation of addictive behavior or other disorders, whether at the subcellular, neural, or personal levels, must perforce involve the denial of free will, since free will (at least in the libertarian sense of an uncaused chooser) is precisely that which can't be explained by causal analysis. We should not, however, equate this attempt at dialogue with Christian dogma, or the idea of the uncaused cause, or the prime mover, with the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus. |
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