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     Selves   who  have  thoughtlessly  internalized   the
perceptions  and  value  judgments of  others  often  have
little  if any awareness of themselves as real persons  or
any  sense  of what they desire.  They are as corks  on  a
stormy sea,  the victims of cause and effect according  to
their heredity and environment.  The fact that they may be
the  victims  of  the  blows inflicted  by  others  in  an
identical situation does not alter the essential nature of
their  common situation.  Such individuals have  no  will.
They do not decide.  They do not intend.  They do not act.
They  merely  react to causes as effects in  a  cause  and
effect  chain which links all together in a common prison.
The prisoners are contained by the self-images of self and
others which define the nature of reality,  and what it is
to exist.

     In  the realm of scientific analysis the  concept  of
"will"   has  played no important role.  As the  power  of
scientific  analysis  has become respected more and  more,
the  models  which  engender that power  have  become  the
dominant  focus  of  many  persons'   attention---to   the
exclusion  of  models  which are not  congruent  with  the
scientific models.  As  a result both scientists and  non-
scientists have appropriated many of the models,   images,
unexamined   assumptions,   and  ways  of  feeling   which
characterized  scientific  analysis ---  and tried to live
lives   in   terms  of  such  appropriated  exports   from
scientific laboratories.  Even those who are very critical
of  science  and scientists have been participants in  the
process  of appropriation and use  of  scientific  models,
assumptions, images, and feelings.

     If a model is sufficiently like that which it is not,
the   model  may  be  helpful  in  facilitating  a  mutual
understanding  of  that  which it  represents.   Where  in
science  is  one to go to find a model  sufficiently  like
human  will?    I  would seem that some  have  become  the
victims of thinking that human will does not exist because
there  is  no  scientific  model  in  terms  of  which  to
understand  human  will.   Then,  rather than pointing  to
reality  which  includes  human will,   reality  has  been
changed  to correspond to what known scientific models  of
it  would  have it be.  Participants in reality  not  only
perceive it, they create it, and make it become what it is
seen to be.
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