[MD] Free Will

[craigerb at comcast.net]

I see 3 issues:
1) Is there a real (as opposed to illusionary) experience that we call "free will"?
2) If so, is 'free will' a good term to describe this experience?
3) Also if so, is the traditional explanation or an explanation in MoQ terms better?

1) [Pirsig]
> Free Will is the philosophic doctrine that man makes choices independent of the atoms of his
> body. 

I think what Pirsig means is that the Doctrine of Free Will (as opposed to Determinism)
"is the philosophic doctrine that man makes choices independent of the atoms of his body".
So the Doctrine of Free Will or Determinism is true or false.
But the exercise/experience of free will need not be "independent of the atoms of his body"
(how could it be?).
An atom in one's body/brain has no memory & no beliefs about of the consequences of
human action.  As such an atom cannot make the kind of choice that is relevant to free will.
But that does not mean that such an atom is irrelevant to free will.  It only means that
something more than that atom is required.

2) [Steve]
> free will is a meaningless term in the MOQ.

But how can the term be meaningless if it refers to a real experience?

3) is the issue we should work on. 
Craig