[Craig, previously] > I prefer ski area X. Then I try a new ski area Y. > Before I didn't consider scenery important, but Y is so beautiful that > I now prefer Y to X. That's my choice--it wasn't already a preference.
[Steve] > Please demonstrate your free will by willing a change in some such > preference. [Steve] > Your example doesn't work. > You didn't set out to will a new specific preference and attain the > new preference by mere force of will as requested. Hah! You've changed the request. First it was "willing a change in some such preference"; now it is "attain the new preference by mere force of will". I demonstrated free will by WILLingly changing my preference. Whether I used "mere force of will", who knows (& as the term implies "FORCE of will" is in any case irrelevent to FREE will.) [Steve] > Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla? Ok, now will yourself to prefer > the other. As I said previously: some preferences we can choose to change & some we can't. The ski area is the former; ice cream/food taste is the latter. Of course, the existence of cases of the latter do not show the impossibility of the former. [Steve] > [preferences] just don't change as a > matter of squinting your eyes and focussing really really hard on > changing them as matter of willing them to be so. Now I see why you can't exercise free will--you're going about it all wrong. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
