[MD] "Could have acted differently" v. "the extent to which we perceive DQ"

[david buchanan]

Okay MOQers, take a look at what sort of conversation I've been having with Steve...

dmb said:...Free will is just another way to say that you could have acted differently. Free will is, as my dictionary puts it, "the ability to act one's own discretion". As I have already said many times, that is all I mean by free will.  ...


Steve said to dmb:
... you insist on a "something extra," as I keep trying to point out to you. You seem to believe that not only must we be free to choose what we want, we must be free to want what we want. But that leads to the sort of regress...


dmb says:
Please notice that Steve has characterized my position as exactly the opposite of what I plainly and explicitly said. If anyone knows how to communicate effectively with someone like that, please step up and show me how because I don't see how it can be done.