[MD] Dennett & James' "Free will"

[MarshaV]

On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:17 PM, david buchanan wrote:

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> ..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 ....
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> 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. 



Marsha:
My question was, in general: How does William James improve the MoQ?  As far as I can see it does not.  It just points backwards and has nothing to say about Quality, static patterns, or the hierarchical, evolutionary structure that helps evaluate many conflicting patterns.  

 
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