Hello All!
I have a feeling i'm talking to myself, but never mind.
Four life forms inhering in DQ. (See previous posts in thread.)
This means i am a forest of four life forms struggling for domination. (Maybe
more?)
But what can it mean to be part social life form?
Have been giving this some thought:
1. Substance is no more. It's a SOM idea that has had it's day.
2. Causation is no more. The MOQ replaces causation (SOM) with value.
3. Individuality is an illusion. (SOM too!)
The social life form, or Giant as Pirsig calls it, is a vast entity and one
simply cannot deconstruct it without destroying it. I am part of it, so are
you, but the life form is not me and you.
It is not of substance; it does not entail causal chains of reactions or
events.
The social life form values freeing itself from the biological life form and
we have some ideas as to how it achieves this.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Blake, Pirsig, A.C. Doyle, to name a few, saw this to
be so.
Members of this group suggest we need to move forward in some way.
Well, i feel the way ahead is being blocked, and it is being blocked by a
narrowness of thinking.
The river is deep but requires widening no?
Consciousness.
Explained?
Not yet.
Consciousness may not be what it appears to be at 1st, 2nd, or 34th look?
Looking at consciousness from the four life form view, consciousness becomes
a strange arena.
This is where a number of life forms can be observed to do battle.
So what is doing the watching?
I have a feeling that, 'That which is doing the watching' is a sea of DQ
mediations.
Added together, these mediations 'look' like consciousness.
This would mean that 'all' there is to consciousness is DQ at work at a very
high rate of static disruption; disruption working upon four life forms
simultaneously.
To this extent Humans are special: Our consciousness is a node at which four
life forms diverge.
Does this lead to a 'fifth' man argument?
I do not feel it does, for the node may be expressed in a adverbalist way;
the divergence being a change in levels of the quality of the multitude of
patterns; a change of mode if one likes?
Beyond all this is DQ itself, and the expunging of battling patterns from,
'The divergence' allows higher level of patterned quality to mediate more
effectively with DQ itself.
This is the aim of buddhist teaching.
This is the essence of freedom. Freedom to mediate DQ effectively.
Some, including 'me' call it creativity.
Beer, other drugs and sex can blow away patterns in much the same way?
But the most effective way may be to learn to encourage an empty mind and 'be
in the moment.'
One more thing - I have felt for a long time now that DQ may not be pushing
patterns forward into evolution, but rather, may be pulling patterns into
evolution.
The future may already be there as DQ?
This would make me a bit of a Teleologist.
(Still thinking about that, even though Pirsig explicitly says this.)
So, consciousness is a Divergence of four life forms mediating DQ.
If a fifth level appears, then the divergence will a node of five life forms.
I can't imagine what that may be like as i am a node of four life forms.
A node of four life forms cannot imagine what i feel like, unless, as i in
fact did, it began without much of an intellect and watched one develop and
slowly take over.
A nice metamorphosis.
But some apes will never see an intellect infest and attempt to dominate
their consciousness.
Thoughts people please?
We are all in this together, but not in the same bed obviously.
Squonk. :-)
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