Hi James, Hi Rog (howye doing. Long time no speak)
Sorry if I break in your conversation, but I can't ignore the chance to be
cited in a thesis :-).
There has been a lot of discussion about the cosmological
perspective of DQ, but I think the discussion of the epistemological
still has some interesting questions. I place your recent posts
under this 'branch' of the understanding of DQ.
To analyse this I wrote out the experiencing process in steps:
1 The inital sense experience (Pure Experience)
2 Recognition
3 Memory-matching / Understanding
Somewhere between the first and the second step in the process, we get
a sense of the DQ of the event. For instance when you go and sit on a hot
stove or hear a great song (for the first time). This sensing of DQ is dependent
on different things. One of it is how new the experience is to you.
Jamie writes:
> it is the repetition of the experience of the new song that "causes" the
> song to lose its dynamic experience and change into a static
> experience
The epistemological DQ seems to be in a continuum with SQ: The
more an experience repeats itself (the more it gets static), the less Dynamic
the experience gets. If you hear the song for the fourth time it's not as dynamic
as the first time.
This means that the human-experienced DQ, is dependent on previous experienced
events, so on a static pattern. If not, the sensing of DQ wouldn't be dependent on
how new the experienced event was.
But doesn't that mean that what is felt as DQ is really Quality, seeing that it
is based on the Static as well?
For a long time I assumed that there was such a thing as experiencing DQ.
Especially with hindsight we can say that some experiences in our lives
had much DQ. But is it really DQ or Q we are talking about here?
Or is the epistemological DQ only 'playing' in the new experiences? Like Pirsig
wrote about the infant's stimuli being DQ.
Hope to hear from you.
Dtchgrtngs,
Walter
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