Bodvar Skutvik wrote:
> DIANA.
> You wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to find a solution to the
> > discontinuity-of-matter-at-the-quantum-level platypus. Pirsig's
> > statement that matter is stable inorganic patterns of value might
> > be correct MoQ but I think we need a little more explanation than that to
> > keep the physicists happy. However obviously this is a rather
> > far-reaching question and possibly a trifle over-ambitious at this
> > stage;)
>
> "Discontinuity of matter" . That each and every matter phenomenon has
> a wave and a particle nature. For instance light - which usually is
> regarded as an electromagnetic wave - is also a photon. My solution
> to the riddle is merely a reiteration of Pirsig's statement, but it
> rests on the very starting point of the Q idea: the PATTERN notion.
> The various levels are patterns of value, including matter which is
> not "substance" but InPoV. Patterns has no continuity or
> discontinuity to worry about, a punch card, a knitting pattern, zeros
> & ones in a software program are only discontinuous seen from a SO
> pov.
You are probably right, but somehow although I don't have trouble
accepting that free will and determinism are both just patterns, I find
it harder to do the same with waves and particles. Maybe I just can't
get away from the idea of substance. At any rate I think the way to go
is to read more about this.
Diana
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