However, by MM’s reckoning, “rationality is not knowing,” “knowing is an emotional process,” and “rationality is worthless in terms of behavior choice.” IOW, by MM’s reckoning, Tom’s “rational conversations” would be, inexorably, “worthless” (a good conclusion perhaps, although arrived at by erroneous rationale).

Nevertheless, I’m delighted to see that Tom now has “some clarity on [his] thoughts on free will,” although I suspect that he probably still believes that humans are “not ultimately responsible for their actions” . . . in which case I suppose one could conclude that MM has a point after all, at least in Tom’s (and her) case, that “rationality is worthless”; and also I suppose that Tom’s “worthless” “rational conversations” probably do make Tom “feel good” too, another point in MM’s favor.

Yep, it all makes “perfect sense.”