[MD] Dennett & James' "Free will"

[david buchanan]

Steve said to dmb:
..Anyway, are you suggesting here that Boyle's Two-Stage model for understanding Jamesian free will, is what Pirsig means by freedom?  ...It [Doyle's lecture to the William James Society at Harvard] would perhaps have helped you if the issue was that I didn't understand what Jamesian free will was. But the issue for me is ....



dmb says:
Dude, the issue is your understanding of Jamesian free will. You brought the issue to the table when you starting quoting from James essay, "The Dilemma of Determinism". And it was Marsha who found the Youtube lectures, although I had earlier quoted Doyle in my efforts to explain how you were misreading James's essay. 

I honestly don't know what motivated you to bring James's two-stage model into the debate (and Marsha's motives are even more mysterious to me) but if anyone should be asking anyone how it's relevant to Pirsig's formulation, I should be asking you. What was your point in bringing it? What is your purpose in ignoring the Jamesian analysis I offered?

Sometimes I think you and Marsha are same person.