On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:13 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > Isn't free will dependent on causation, and isn't causation, in the MoQ, an explanatory extension of a pattern? Yes, causation is understood as a stable pattern of preference, B routinely values precondition A. Further, B literally IS a set of such preferences.