[MD] Choosing Chance

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Steve]
As I understand it, the MOQ isn't a philosphy of choice or chance but 
rather preferences. Our preferences are not based on choice or chance 
but on other preferences. It's preferences all the way down.

[Arlo]
I think we are just splitting hairs here, but I'd say that an agenic 
response of "preference" is founded on the presence of "chance". If 
something has no "chance" but to act the way it does, then it has no 
ability to enact "preference".

When you "prefer" vanilla over chocolate ice cream, you do so because 
your choice is not certain; it is not predetermined, coerced, 
manipulated or orchestrated. If there is 100% certainty that you'd 
pick vanilla, then you did not act on preference, you were simply 
machinistically doing what was planned of you.

Subatomic particles "prefer" forming atoms only when there is some 
"chance" that they might not. If they were coerced by an unseen, 
willful, hand to do what they did, then they were not exhibiting 
"preference", were they?

There are times, like I said before, that "preference" or "choice" 
may approach near certainty, but if you remove probability/chance 
altogether, then you eliminate freedom. You make the cosmos the 
super-marionation show for the Will of Qualit-god, nothing more.