[MD] freewill

[Horse]

Hi Marsha

I think Pirsig is using the term 'fiction' here in the same way that one 
would use the term 'illusion'.
An illusion is real enough in that we don't have to see it as something 
that doesn't exist - it just doesn't exist in the way we think it does.

The 'I' is illusory, not fictitious. Big difference.

Horse

On 11/04/2011 12:33, MarshaV wrote:
> Me, you and Pirsig are a fiction.
>
> "This self-appointed little editor of reality is just an impossible fiction that collapses the moment one examines it. This Cartesian 'Me' is a software reality, not a hardware reality. This body on the left and this body on the right are running variations of the same program, the same 'Me,' which doesn't belong to either of them. The 'Me's' are simply a program format."  (LILA)

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