Ooops. Forgot to include the link. If you want to see the article, it's at 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lance-p-hickey-phd/flow-experiences-happiness_b_811682.html

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 07:22:05 -0600
> Subject: Re: [MD] freewill
> 
> 
> Ron said to Dan:
> This part has me confused about how Pirsigs Ideas about the expansion of 
> reason fits together with this interpretation. The only time we are truly 
> free is when one over comes intellectual stuckness. To say that true freedom 
> is freedom from static patterns of value is only speaking about intellectual 
> patterns to be sure. And I'm not quite sure this squares with the idea of the 
> expansion of reason.
> 
> dmb says:
> The expansion of reason is basically adding a feel for the work, like when 
> the motorcycle mechanic becomes one with the task. He or she understands the 
> rational relationship between all the parts, has a feel for the tools and 
> even acts as a motorcycle scientist test hypotheses and hunches along the way 
> but he or she also has an artist's feel for the work and he or she cares 
> enough to get so deeply absorbed and engaged in the task that he or she is 
> lost in it and becomes one with the bike.
> There was an article about this in the Huffington post earlier this year. It 
> connects peak experience or "flow" experiences to Pirsig's deeply engaged 
> motorcycle mechanic.
> As James so simply and succinctly puts it, the best philosophies and the best 
> philosophers will bring ALL their faculties to bear, not just logical and 
> rational thinking. You gotta have that, but it's not enough. 
> 
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