Adrie, Dan, all,
If we don't want to speak of free will we could also say that the model
is about how minds cause value accumulation within the ontology Pirsig
presents in LILA. So, we replace "free will" with "mind". It doesn't
really matter whether the mind has free will or not. So, are you fine
with the notion that the mind is the cause of value accumulation? That
minds make choices?
Sounds good to me.
Regards,
Tuk
On 15-Jul-16 17:27, Adrie Kintziger wrote:
But given your phrase ;first choice and more choises,would this not imply
by effect that the theme core here is really will and free will?
Or do i read it wrongly?
I took Dans remarks in concideration here
snip (Dan)
Do you really believe biological patterns have volition? I can't see
it. Biological patterns are constrained into a specific set of
parameters which disable them, the biological patterns, from going
outside those parameters. So really the volition or choice that
biological patterns 'have' isn't that so much as being had by the
quality that both surrounds them, the biological patterns, and
permeates them, simultaneously making it seem as if free will exists,
which of course it does, but only seem to. So in essence this tends to
render your argument null and void if one follows said reasoning above
to its logical conclusion.
Adrie
2016-07-15 15:43 GMT+02:00 Tuukka Virtaperko <m...@tuukkavirtaperko.net>:
Dan, all,
Whoops, I wrote:
The reason why I said inorganic patterns have value only as extensions of
biological patterns is that this way the inorganic level has some value,
but it also has necessarily less value than the biological level.
What I meant is that the inorganic level necessarily doesn't have more
value than the biological level.
Suppose we start the model so that there is zero quality within the model.
Then a biological pattern makes the first choice using some inorganic
pattern as an instrument. In this situation the inorganic level and the
biological level have an equal amount of value for as long as it takes for
the biological pattern to carry out the choice. After the choice has been
made the amount of inorganic value is back to zero but biological value
remains.
So, in this special situation, the inorganic level and the biological
level would have an equal amount of value. But as more choices are being
made the inorganic level would definitely end up having less value than the
biological level. I don't think this is a problem, but I was, technically,
wrong when I said that the inorganic level would necessarily have less
value than the biological level, because that doesn't apply in the special
situation I mentioned although it seems to apply otherwise.
Approaching my quota of four messages per day...
Regards,
Tuk
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