Hi Jerry,
The maintenance of the illusion and the fallacy in the sequence argument
you present is the snip below. If you rethink it clearly on the basis that
mind is directed by body, you get a different analysis. Your snip assumes
your position then claims from it that your position is true - a
sophisticated tautology. Try a starting point that the choices occur in the
body outside the mind; the mind gymnastics feed some additional information
to the body; and the body then gives us the illusion we are thinking and
having freedom of choice. The situation is more obvious when one reviews
individuals mind use in situations that one can easily test that the mind is
too limited to think through and predict the behaviour of. In this cases,
freedom of choice in decisions and belief that one has made the correct
choices are clearly false and illusory - our sense of self is deluded.
snip>"A design theory that involves negotiating transformative preferences
and assumes a conversation among actively participating stakeholder minds
must necessarily require some freedom of choice. Terryıs presentation of
mind as a kind of receptacle showcase and phantom ambassador for decisions
made elsewhere doesnıt obviously allow for this and raises, I think, strong
ethical concerns. Would we really want to travel backwards to Beyond Freedom
and Dignity? However and whenever we are able to reveal the
neural-physiological mechanisms of consciousness, I have a hard time
believing it will dissolve the responsibility required both individually and
socially for dwelling gracefully in the world."
Carefully check the logic and you will see you are privileging 'stakeholder
minds' and 'we' to the point that it gives an erroneous logic.
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dr Terence Love, FDRS, PMACM, AMIMechE, MISI
PhD, B.A.(Hons), PGCE
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