[MD] Free Will

[Horse]

Hi Steve, Dave and others

The general impression I get with this debate about Free Will / 
Determinism is the same impression that I get with the Selfishness / 
Altruism debate.
It's somewhere between political and ideological.
That's to say that proponents of either side see the distinction as a 
comparison of absolutes and somewhere along the line each side tries to 
define the other side out of existence.
The position appears to be that there is only free will or there is only 
determinism or, there is only selfishness or there is only altruism - 
it's very rare to see a position which relates to the degree of one or 
the other in a particular context. I remember being attracted to the MoQ 
because, for the most part, it avoided absolutes in favour of context.

Horse

On 19/06/2011 23:57, Steven Peterson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Horse<horse at darkstar.uk.net>  wrote:
>> So we're kind of back to the idea that 'Free Will' is an illusion!
>
> Sam Harris goes further to say that those who meditate learn that
> illusion of free will is itself an illusion:
>

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