[MD] freewill

[MarshaV]

On Apr 11, 2011, at 3:12 PM, david buchanan wrote:

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> Horse said to 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.
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> dmb says:
> Right, Marsha is reading the rejection of the Cartesian conception of self as a rejection of ANY conception of the self.

Marsha:
I did not even use the word rejection.  Both self and static patterns of value are illusions, but they are useful.  





 
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