Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-01-20]: A scientific research concluded that human friendship relationships are affected by the genes we carry, in such a way that humans who are friends often share similarities in their gennetic material [source: web news]. As long as we believe that we are machines, conclusions like those will continue coming... Humans have also free will and that is something even the most hardcore atheists understand. We may not know what this free will is about, that we can be sure that we are more than mainframes programmed with COBOL...
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