ROB REPLIES TO THE 5 QUESTIONS.
It would be awkward to answer the questions specifically. I can tell you how I
have resolved them
Short answer:
Reality is made of patterns. These patterns while being conditional, also change
the conditions. Reality is also made of a finite number of entities which are
sensitive to the infinite patterns.
Long answer:
I observe a reality made of two things: patterns and sensitivity to the patterns.
When I look out at the window and see a car driving down the street, it is
meaningless for me to think whether it is primarily dynamic or static. Using the
different definitions it really could be either. What is important is that there
is the pattern of car and it takes a "me" to be aware of it. The number of "me"s
in this world is finite, but the patterns are infinite. "Car"ness is unlimited.
Change comes when two patterns interact or meet.
Take planteary orbits. Did dyanmic quality overcome inertia and gravity to cause
planetary oribits. That is another strange way of saying it. Why not say gravity
is a pattern, inertia is a pattern, and orbits are a pattern?
Patterns arise when certain conditions are in place. We meet a person of a
certain gender who "matches" the requirements of our hormones and so forth -- we
experience attraction. There is not an indendent "force" to the patterns called
dynamic quality. There are just patterns mixing in unique ways that make reality
seem dynamic. The patterns while being conditional ALSO change the conditions.
That is why we can never be certain. We might think the patterns we are
experiencing are constant, but there can always be something new around the
corner. You can't contain reality.
I should probably get into the "me" aspect of reality. This is definately a
different aspect of reality to the patterns. "I" never really experience "you"
directly. "I" only infer the existence of "you" through your influence on the
patterns I experience. If we were to meet and I shook your hand, I would assume
that there is a "you" at work inside your body. That just makes the most sense.
We are both some sort of "spiritual" entities, existing outside the patterns of
reality, somehow sensitive to them.
The terms dynamic and static are relevant to me when discussing the finite
entities of sensititivity. These terms are not absolute but relative. A dynamic
"mind" is in direct contact to the patterns whereas a static mind is not in
reality or in the present. It is judegementally interpretting reality by clinging
to patterns of the past (eg. a woman's place is always in the home.) or it is
judgementally interpreting reality by clinging to worries about the future (what
if I ask this girl out and she says "no". -- when it really doesn't matter?)
MOQ:
Quality
/ \
/ \
Dynamic Static Levels
Rob's view:
Reality
/ \
/ \
Quality Sentivity to Quality
/ \
Dynamic Static
This re-interpretation makes a lot of sense to me. I could go into it much
deeper, but I wanted to get a taste of what you think.
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