Chris Lofting wrote:
> I think the emphasis from my perspective is that MOQ and the S/D
> emphasis stems from the neurological emphasis on
> objects/relationships.
Hi Chris and All Discuss.
Is S/D equal to S/O (subject/object) or is it some other acronym
that has gone me by? You say: "...MOQ and the S/O emphasis
stems from the neurological ...etc". Do you mean that the Quality
Metaphysics emphasizes the subject/object relationship because
only in it is the S/O identified as a world view ?
If so you have a deep insight, but am afraid that you simply mean
that biology (when it reaches the "thinking" level) is bound to
perceive reality as subjective/objective because of a neurological
hard-wiring (a ROM so to speak) ...and that this basic S/O by
twists and turns even has spawned the dynamic/static division.
If so, isn't that just another way of saying that a belief or a theory,
how deep and all-encompassing, is just a by-product of some more
basic conditions, and thus that you belong to the materialist
camp? But wait, this isn't so bad in my book, I like it bit better than
the dualist view: that mind and matter are worlds apart "and that
the twain shall never meet". But really the MOQ conforms to
neither.
If I stretch myself to the limit to meet you. In my opinion the QM
(sort of) supports this view although from a different angle because
in it the Inorganic value level (matter) puts some restrictions on the
rest of the static sequence, but the Q-idea is that the next level
transforms the restrictions (it inherited from the parent level) into its
own purpose. Yet the lower values follows like the floors of a
building, so even Intellect is is inorganic-biological-social
dependant.
Your point that the biological hard-wiring bleeds trough in a
"thinking context" (which I believe is your concession to the
Intellectual level?) may be valid, but I fear that you harbour the
common notion of mind-out-of-matter (matter in bio-neurological
form of course) and that the Social level - the Q-levels generally - is
of no consequence.
I don't go further, but hope to open some dialogue with you about
these basic premises.
Bo
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