[MD] experience

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[Craig previously] 
> What test would support or refute Pirsig's position? 


Case,
I was hoping that other MOQers would jump in here.  Maybe they've all been through this before.  Or maybe they're letting us stew in our own juices.  
If (a) touching a hot stove & backing away is following Dynamic Quality & (b) calculating whether one can escape through a burning room is being controlled by static patterns, I can't see why (a) is an instance of free will but not (b).  

Perhaps, as you suggested, free will lies in the feedback mechanism.  If we make a decision without deliberation, it is a result of whatever mix of influences & moods currently exist within us.  But this decision is itself something new to consider that did not exist before.  If in realizing what this decision is, we reconsider it, a different decision might be made.  But if conditions C result in decision D1, why would C + D1 result in decision D2?      
Craig