[MD] Free Will

[MarshaV]

On May 1, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Steven Peterson wrote:

>> Marsha:
>> I un-ask the question.   Wherever those preferences lie, they do not inherently exist.
> 
> 
> Steve:
> The MOQ says that the only things that exist are such preferences
> (patterns of value). Locating such preferences in a subject is an
> inference from the preferences, so the subject borrows any existence
> it can be thought of as having from the patterns of preference from
> which it is inferred. There is no "I" that stands out side of patterns
> of value (except for the capacity for patterns to change). In other
> words, what you are (and what a rock or tree or thunderstorm is) is
> collection of likes and dislikes, loves and hates, desires and
> aversions. When you peal that onion there is only emptiness (DQ).


Marsha:
So an "I's" choice as the cause of this or that is?   



 
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