From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 02:22:15 BST
Steve et al,
As you say:
> Free Will seems to be one of those SOM Platypi--the sort of issue that
gets
> resolved in the MOQ.
>
> The issue is whether the cause of human behavior lies in the human subject
> or in external objective reality. But if subjects and objects are
> deductions from Quality, then neither free will of the subject nor
> determinism by objective reality represents the cause of human behavior.
>
> It seems that the question, "do we have free will" needs to be unasked
> within the MOQ context. Or at least reworked.
I suggest replacing the phrase "free will" with "creativity". And only
Quality is creative. We are just local passageways for creativity to be
creative. We make a mistake by trying to own it, which leads us to wonder
how much "freedom" we have. One can just as well say we have none or we have
all. The error is to think that there is some "thing" called "me" that "has"
choices. The choices exist in their own right.
- Scott
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