Glove and Squad,
Glad their's no hard feeling about my absense, we either got the contract or my
alka-seltzer defense worked on the ants...
glove wrote:
> Glen, lets imagine one day you walk into your living room and there is a
> transmission from a '64 Buick laying on your living room carpet...what would
> occur? the first thing your mind would do is attempt to explain why that
> transmission is there. within a split microsecond your perception will have
> sorted through hundreds of possibilities why such an event should occur and
> will have settled upon 2 or 3 choices.
What I meant to get at with this rather poor analogy was the frequency of the
occurance and size of the objects involved were the macroscopic world to be even
a little like the sub-atomic. While undoubted I would explain a single
transmission could I explain my driveway filling up with them? Or perhaps a
complete replica of Japan (including people) appearing in New Jersey? Were the
macroscopic world and the sub-atomic alike in their discontinousness these sort
of events should be very commonplace. Of course these events would only last
for a hundred years then disappear and would always occur in tandem.
> Glen, i do not believe we can assign any function whatsoever to time when we
> deal with the concept of Dynamic Quality. it is tempting to assign
> simultaneaous-ness to the notion of the relationship of time and DQ but we
> must remember it is only an abstract notion of what DQ could be like
> time-wise. still, the experimental research that has been done in the
> Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox seems to lead in that direction.
Hmm... I tend to think that the first inorganic pattern arising out of the
Dynamic Quality soup created was Time. The definition I offer for Dynamic
Quality and my definition of Time are pretty much the same; The capacity for
change. I don't really like this but I don't have a better answer yet. I'm not
sure i'm clear at what your getting at here.
> Pirsig writes:
> "...the price for being Dynamic is instability. Any Dynamic situation is
> vunerable to attrition and corruption and even to complete collapse." (Pg.
> 349)
>
> it seems to me that if the Dynamic is unstable, then static quality
> represents stability. furthermore, time is part of that description of
> stability, while time has no representation in an unstable Dynamic way
> simply because we are not aware of it directly in any way. so for me to
> Dynamically walk thru walls will take no-time at all!
I think there is a subtle difference here; "the price for being Dynamic is
instability" and Dynamic Quality itself being unstable. Static patterns
represent stability to us but they might just look like roadblocks to Dynamic
Quality. I would agree that the static patterns we cling to are inheirently
unstable because they are based on Dynamic Quality.
Glen the Mad
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