Suppose we start from the point Sharon made yesterday in her comment, and iterate from there:<\/p>\n
Suppose you could wander freely throughout the world, with no restrictions on you at all, in the company of just one companion, whom you really like. The two of you would be totally free to explore the world, but without other people.<\/p>\n
In the other extreme, suppose the two of you spent your entire life in a room together. Your interactions with other people would be virtual, pure exchanges of information. You both could have a great variety of friends, unlimited social connections, unbounded intellectual stimulation. But all from within that room.<\/p>\n
If you had to choose one of these scenarios, which would you choose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suppose we start from the point Sharon made yesterday in her comment, and iterate from there: Suppose you could wander freely throughout the world, with no restrictions on you at all, in the company of just one companion, whom you really like. The two of you would be totally free to explore the world, but … Continue reading “The nature of freedom, part 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15922,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions\/15922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}