HI Marsha, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:30 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't help but wonder... > > The topic seems all wrong. Isn't the notion of free will (an intellectual > static pattern of value) dependent the acceptance of causation? MY > CHOICE WILLED is the CAUSE of such-and-such independent EFFECT?
Yes, I have tried to make clear that the free will/determinism debate depends entirely on premises that the MOQ denies. The MOQ denies free will as well as determinism in favor of a continuum of reliable to unpredictable preferences. Determinism is false in the MOQ because determinism leaves no place for values. Free will is also false since though everything is preference (or value), it is meaningless to assert that preference is free. What could a person's preference be free of when all that a person is is a set of preferences? This freedom to which the traditional notion of free will refers is the freedom of an independent agent that the MOQ calls a fiction. So in short, absolutely, "this topic...is all wrong." But the notion of free will is such a cherished one that even MOQers who deny the existence of the fundamental reality of an independent subject nevertheless are horrified to think that this subject who does not exist lacks free will. Best, Steve 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
