[MD] experience

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Case]
> Force sufficient to compel me to eat worms...might be...the amount of money you offer me to do it.
> ...But the point of this was if it is fair to say that inorganic matter has a preference, is it turn about to say
>  that 'preference' among living things is just another form of determinism?


"In the Metaphysics of Quality this dilemma doesn’t come up. To the extent that one’s behavior is controlled by static patterns of quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable, one’s behavior is free." (RMP, LILA, Chap. 12)


IMO, the "form of determinism" for humans is that of self-determinism, i.e., choice.  If the amount of money you offer me to eat worms is sufficient, it is because I have decided that it is.
Craig