In a message dated 4/30/02 3:20:37 AM GMT Daylight Time,
ehallmark@macalester.edu writes:
<< Subj: MD a Quality event
Date: 4/30/02 3:20:37 AM GMT Daylight Time
From: ehallmark@macalester.edu
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Hi all,
Ok, i thought i understood the MoQ pretty well, but i got into a discussion
with a friend of mine who doent know MoQ, so i didnt bring it up. But i
realized that i dont understand the qaulity event as well as i thought i
did. How does Quality and not qualities define a chair as opposed to a
door? It seems very easy to define a chair and a door in terms of its
usefulness as such, but that requires either perception of qualities or a
preformed "form" of a door to which i compare the quality of the object in
question to. Neither seem to fit into MoQ too well.
thanks,
Elliot >>
Hi Elliot,
Maybe you DO understand the MOQ better than you think?
Maybe you have forgotten that you understand but have been driven off course
a little?
:-)
Chairs and doors are static patterns of value.
They have been extruded from the Dynamic flow of reality and assume a life of
their own in two ways:
1. As relatively stable patterns of inorganic value.
2. As human experience which is itself a tangle of static organic, social and
intellectual patterns of value.
All these values flow together and comprise an island of dissipative stable
structures, so to speak, with a fleeting existence in the stream of dynamic
reality.
Our e-mails are fleeting structures in the same evolving process.
Quality is experienced as a comprehension of that which holds the static
structures together.
A definition of Quality cannot therefore be given as it is prior to
definition and may only be hinted at.
Hope this helps?
All the best,
Squonk.
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