[MD] Free Will

[Steven Peterson]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Ian Glendinning
> <ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dan responded to Steve:
>>
>> [Dan] You (Steve) said: The question of free will versus determinism
>> gets replaced
>> by the question, to what extent do we follow DQ and to what extent do
>> we follow sq?
>>
>> [Dan] It appears from reading this that these are two mutually exclusive
>> options, hence my observation that they are not.
>>
>> Huh, Dan ? "to what extent" A and/or B suggests the exact opposite of
>> mutual exclusivity. It correctly implies you generally have a mix of
>> both side by side.
>
> Hi Ian
>
> It's the way Steve framed the statement that suggests we cannot follow
> both static quality and Dynamic Quality at the same time. According to
> the way I read that statement, we follow one OR the other to some
> extent. It is entirely possible that I read it wrong, however.


Again, Dan, I have not set out to formulate the issue. I was relating
how Pirsig formulates the issue when he said:
"To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of
quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows
Dynamic Quality, which is undefinable, one's behavior is free."