Re: MD Ubiquitous Quality, Universal Mind

From: elephant (moqelephant@lineone.net)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 21:05:19 BST


No I don't think either Roger or I disagree with RMP. Note the use of
"quotation marks" around "prefer". RMP argues that it is *as if* atoms
prefered things.

> From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@cbvnol.net>
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:11:19 -0500
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: Re: MD Ubiquitous Quality, Universal Mind
>
> I take it you disagree with physicist Freeman
> Dyson that "Mind, as manifest by the capacity to make choices, is to
> some extent inherent in every atom" and that you disagree with Pirsig
> who wrote, "But in modern quantum physics all that is changed.
> Particles "prefer" to do what they do."

BTW there's more to mind than making choices - there's creating the stuff to
choose between as well. (maybe this is where our enitire disagreement
lies).

e

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