[MD] Free Will

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Steve]
> Any one who meditates has a sense of this. Thoughts simply
> arise.

That thoughts simply arise when meditating does not mean that
that's what happens when not meditating. 

[Craig, previously]
> What is this compulsion we have when we don't feel compelled?
> Perhaps the cases of free will are just the cases where there is no
> compulsion.

[Steve]
> Rather the feeling that you are sometimes in control of your
> intentions--that you are the source of your thoughts rather than a
> being comprised of these thoughts among other patterns

You're not considering that the two emerge together.
There are times when we feel more & times we feel less in control.
This evidence seems more compelling than that we are never in control
and always being compelled even when we don't feel we are.
Craig