Obama goes all pre-Socratic

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

-- Heraclitus


"The person that I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago."

-- Barack Obama

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Philosophical question of the day

I was driving today on the Beltway, in the second lane from the left. A car came up on my right quickly, too quickly to continue for long, because there was another car ahead of it in that lane.

I said to Mrs. Attila: "That car is going to cut in front of me." And it did.

My question is: If I knew in advance that the car was going to cut in front of me, did the driver have free will?

Discuss.

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