Okay, I found it and had a quick read but I'm really really really really working to a deadline... I want to take the time to read it properly because I'm pretty darned sure that I will have lots to say :-)

I will say that I'm fairly impressed with your book... I had a little look at the sex stuff, in particular (trying to assess whether you were going to be pushing some kind of fundamentalist agenda...) but I thought your thoughts were very sensible ineed. Possibly a little on the conservative side... But well reasoned and articulated and certainly something to think about.

> You make a distinction between self-change and meditation but it seems to me that meditation also involves changing your view from being upset to being tolerant.

Yep. One can deny that acceptance without change is possible. Linehan says... Acceptance *is* change... Don't ya just love a paradox :-) (That view does indeed allow you to avoid the bullet too).

Just one quick thought on determininsm...

It is an empirical matter (to be discovered by science) whether determinism is true of this world or false of this world. That is still up for grabs. It might turn out that quantum indeterminacies are irreducible in which case the behaviour of quantum particles would be probabilistic rather than deterministic. It might also be the case (it would certainly seem to be possible) that if this world is indeed irreducibly indeterministic at the level of quantum particles that that indeterminacy would percolate up to the atomic level... and up further to the macroscopic level.

It is typically accepted that whether determinism or indeterminism is true makes little difference for our notion of free will, however. The story about free will can typically go through much the same.

When I talk about free will I usually talk about determinism too but sooner or later someone brings up quantum indeterminacies... So sometimes it is best to put in a footnote or something like that...

There is actually quite a lot of fairly recent work that has been done on free will:

http://consc.net/online2.html#freewill

(All available online)