"Bentham, you will remember, says that all that counts are pleasurable experiences, no matter how they are produced. Mill disagreed"
I don't know what "you will remember" means there. I don't know why the author put it between commas. I think the word "will" in "you will remember" is "used to refer to what is likely"(http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/will).
Is it correct if I rewrite the sentence like this?
"You will remember that Bentham says that all that counts are pleasurable experiences, no matter how they are produced. Mill disagreed."
Best Answer
There is a thing called sub-ordinate clauses in English. It is used to provide information that is slightly off topic, and you could pretend the sentence is without it and it will mean the same thing
For example:
is the same as:
In this scenario, the author is saying that you will remember that Bentham says this and that. You can rearrange it as "Bentham says this and that", but the author has decided to add in "you will remember" as a sub-ordinate clause for his own reasons.