Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Michael R. Brown
Marsha - There may also come a time when citizens may need to change the laws. Especially when politicians have become criminals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification MRB http://www.fuguewriter.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
On Aug 8, 2011, at 6:01 PM, david buchanan wrote: Marsha axed: Is there a difference between the law holding someone responsible protecting citizens from further harm and a individual being morally responsible? Just a question... dmb says: Yes, there is a big difference. I think

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:21 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote: Marsha - There may also come a time when citizens may need to change the laws. Especially when politicians have become criminals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification MRB Michael, If you've watched the movie

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread David Thomas
On 8/8/11 5:01 PM, David Buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: dmb says: Yes, there is a big difference. I think that was Sam's point. We build tornado shelters because tornados do damage, not because we hold them morally responsible for their actions. Same with brain-diseased psychopaths.

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
That's true of the value of the U.S. dollar too; the dollar is an interdependent, ever-changing and impermanent process. On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:03 AM, MarshaV wrote: Hello Dave, Let's not forget that bullets as patterns are ever-changing, inter-dependent and impermanent

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread David Thomas
On 8/9/11 6:03 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Marsha Let's not forget that bullets as patterns are ever-changing, inter-dependent and impermanent processes. imho With no-self. Do you ever sleep? Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:11 AM, David Thomas wrote: On 8/9/11 6:03 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Marsha Let's not forget that bullets as patterns are ever-changing, inter-dependent and impermanent processes. imho With no-self. There we go! :-) Do you ever sleep? Okay, I'll

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi Ian, Ian: I am at a loss to understand how you are separating free-will from responsibility (at any level, common sense, science, MoQ or metaphysical in general). Steve: This is link is not a logical necessity because even if we accept for the sake of argument that determinism is true, we

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi dmb, Moral agency A Moral agent is a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong. Moral agency is a person's responsibility for making moral judgments and taking actions that comport with morality. Steve: I don't see any necessary link of free will and the idea of

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
dmb: At one point, if memory serves, Steve even went so far as to say that Pirsig doesn't talk about moral responsibility and otherwise suggested it plays no important role in the MOQ. Steve: It does play a role in the MOQ. The MOQ says that moral condemnation and praising oneself for not

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi dmb, On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Steve said to Ham: I wonder if Dennett takes determinism as the belief that natural laws are true as a metaphysical assertion or a pragmatic one. If the latter I agree with Dennett and in some weak sense a

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
If you want to believe those ignorant hacks over at Stanford Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem. This philosophical problem concerns a disputed incompatibility between free will and determinism. Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is compatible with

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
If you want to believe the ignorant hacks who speak the english language,.. involuntary |inˈvälənˌterē|adjective1 done without conscious control : she gave an involuntary shudder.• (esp. of muscles or nerves) concerned in bodily processes that are not under the control of the will.• caused

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi dmb, dmb: If you want to believe those ignorant hacks over at Stanford Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem. This philosophical problem concerns a disputed incompatibility between free will and determinism. Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi dmb, On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: If you want to believe the ignorant hacks who speak the english language,.. involuntary |inˈvälənˌterē|adjective1 done without conscious control : she gave an involuntary shudder.• (esp. of muscles or

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
Marsha said: Free-will is a static pattern of value, a conventional belief, not something ultimately real. So I neither accept 'free-will' nor reject 'free-will'; it is irrelevant from a MoQ point-of-view. The will is an idea, a concept derived from experience. If this concept is NOT

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
Dmb, Your claim to 'free will' is by right of static, convention only. I am interested in the MoQ, NOT Contemporary Pragmatism, as such I am not interested in what dmb says that Charlene says that James says. I can appreciate that you have a great interest in W. James, but as far as I am

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will corrected

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
Dmb, Your claim to 'free will' is by right of static, convention only. I am interested in the MoQ, NOT Contemporary Pragmatism, as such I am not interested in what dmb says that Charlene says that James says. I can appreciate that you have a great interest in W. James, but as far as I am

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will corrected

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
Marsha said to dmb, Your claim to 'free will' is by right of static, convention only. I am interested in the MoQ, NOT Contemporary Pragmatism, as such I am not interested in what dmb says that Charlene says that James says. dmb says: Nope. You're quite mistaken on both accounts. Free

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Andre Broersen
Marsha said: Let's not forget that bullets as patterns are ever-changing, inter-dependent and impermanent processes. imho Free-will is a static pattern of value, a conventional belief, not something ultimately real. So I neither accept 'free-will' nor reject 'free-will'; it is irrelevant

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will corrected

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
On Aug 9, 2011, at 1:56 PM, david buchanan wrote: Marsha said to dmb, Your claim to 'free will' is by right of static, convention only. I am interested in the MoQ, NOT Contemporary Pragmatism, as such I am not interested in what dmb says that Charlene says that James says. dmb

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
Bugger off! On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Andre Broersen wrote: Marsha said: Let's not forget that bullets as patterns are ever-changing, inter-dependent and impermanent processes. imho Free-will is a static pattern of value, a conventional belief, not something ultimately

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
dmb quoted the dictionary: involuntary |inˈvälənˌterē|adjective1 done without conscious control : she gave an involuntary shudder.• (esp. of muscles or nerves) concerned in bodily processes that are not under the control of the will.• caused unintentionally, esp. through negligence

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi dmb, Steve replied: I'm not sure what your point is. Are you contending that in the hot stove example Pirsig is describing a willed act? dmb says: I'm saying that responding to DQ can't rightly be described as unconscious or involuntary. I'm saying there is a good reason why we

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
Everything is conventionally real. Nothing is ultimately real. Everything is both conventionally real and ultimately unreal. Nothing is either conventionally unreal or ultimately real. On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Andre Broersen wrote: Marsha said: Let's not forget that bullets as

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread Dan Glover
Hello everyone On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Steve replied: I'm not sure what your point is. Are you contending that in the hot stove example Pirsig is describing a willed act? dmb says: I'm saying that responding to DQ can't rightly be

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Andre Broersen
Marsha to Andre: Bugger off! Andre: I am (almost) beginning(!) to feel very sorry for you. 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/

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread MarshaV
Andre, Don't feel sorry for me. I'm not the one whining that I won't play by YOUR rules. You're like a tattlle-tale: Mommy! Marsha won't play by MY rules. She said this and that. Waa. Make her stop... Whatever... Marsha On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:47

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
dmb quoted the Stanford encyclopedia: Compatibilism offers a solution to the free will problem. This philosophical problem concerns a disputed incompatibility between free will and determinism. Compatibilism is the thesis that free will is compatible with determinism. Because free will is

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
Dan said to dmb: I would say that Dynamic Quality only becomes concrete empirical reality afterwards, and then it is no longer Dynamic Quality. If you drop the two identifiers and say Dynamic Quality is synonymous with reality, then I would tend to agree with you here. I see you trying to box

Re: [MD] Quality in the Balance, Part 1: Semantics

2011-08-09 Thread 118
Hi Mike, You mean Bezerkly? My brother went there in the '70s, you have never seen more displaced people looking for a cause. No more sex, love, and rock'n roll. Guns anyone? Hasn't changed from what I gather from my nephew who lives in The City. Lots of rich, lots of poor, and now lot's of

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
Steve, inserted On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ian, Ian: I am at a loss to understand how you are separating free-will from responsibility (at any level, common sense, science, MoQ or metaphysical in general). Steve: This is link is not

[MD] Quality in the Balance, Part 3: in the

2011-08-09 Thread 118
This is the third part of my trilogy concerning the applications of Taoism to MoQ. In part 1 I described how language can be used to balance our understanding of Quality. In part 2 I wrote about the balance between the Sacred and the Profane, and provided alternative analogies to Taoism. In

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Andre Broersen
Marsha to Andre: Don't feel sorry for me. I'm not the one whining that I won't play by YOUR rules. You're like a tattlle-tale: Mommy! Marsha won't play by MY rules. She said this and that. Waa. Make her stop... Whatever... Andre: Now I really do feel sorry for

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Jan-Anders Andersson
Hi It is beginning to show up that Marsha to some degree is predictable and never-changing... Shame on you Marsha! Jan-Anders 9 aug 2011 kl. 21.05 skrev moq_discuss-requ...@lists.moqtalk.org: Andre, Don't feel sorry for me. I'm not the one whining that I won't play by YOUR rules.

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
Steve I checked out the 2011 Eagleman book, on-line Google books and Amazon text, and a number of reviews. Seems to include many references I've read or recognize ... Is your case simply that even consciousness and conscious will are largely the products of subsconscious patterns. (That's a

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread Steven Peterson
Hi Ian, Ian: I am at a loss to understand how you are separating free-will from responsibility (at any level, common sense, science, MoQ or metaphysical in general). Steve: This is link is not a logical necessity because even if we accept for the sake of argument that determinism is

Re: [MD] Freewill

2011-08-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Steve, I think Spinoza would have a lot to say about undefined/defined reality. Joe On 8/3/11 8:33 PM, Michael R. Brown m...@fuguewriter.com wrote: I think Augustine and Meister Eckhart would like this line much. I love Spinoza's simple, lovely reasoning that we are in direct contact

Re: [MD] Freewill

2011-08-09 Thread Joseph Maurer
Hi Arlo, I have a very difficult time in my perceptions trying to arrive at the possible perceptible DQ of a social level that I can describe analogously. I appeal to the emotions, but the hierarchy is more universal than social. I love myself. Joe On 8/3/11 9:16 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR

Re: [MD] Hot Stoves and What To Do About Them

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
Steve said to dmb: I'm not saying that _all_ response to DQ is necessarily involuntary. I'm just wondering if it _can_ be involuntary. If hopping off the hot stove is an example of following DQ, and if we take free will to be captured in Pirsig's claim that we are free to the extent that we

Re: [MD] Moral Responsibility without free will

2011-08-09 Thread david buchanan
Andre said: ... Marsha also argues that because something is only conventionally real, and not ultimately real she doesn't accept it as being relevant FROM A MOQ POINT-OF-VIEW! Now this is serious. Apart from the 'free-will' discussion that has been going on for a while Marsha claims it is

Re: [MD] Free Will

2011-08-09 Thread 118
Mark On Aug 7, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:17 PM, 118 ununocti...@gmail.com wrote: I would say that Free-Will is only the ability to act irrationally. We have the choice to Not do something. Ask someone with Tourette's

Re: [MD] [Bulk] Term: 'sense' in 'sense of self'?

2011-08-09 Thread 118
I'll give it a try. I am more into Buddhist Analysis. Chapter 1: How? Chapter 2: Why? Chapter 3: When? Chafer 4: Where? Conclusions: What? Epilogue: Wazzap? Mark On Aug 8, 2011, at 1:44 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Greetings, Btw, this is a very expensive book, but can

Re: [MD] Freewill

2011-08-09 Thread 118
Hi Joe, The DQ of the Social Level is interconnectivity, or it's many verbs. Mark On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Arlo, I have a very difficult time in my perceptions trying to arrive at the possible perceptible DQ of a social level that I can