From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 01:41:07 GMT
Platt and all:
DMB says:
Something occured to me just moments after I sent the last post. Let me
re-orient you and the other readers to the original point of this
discussion. You, or somebody, had asked if only intellect can respond to DQ.
This is where Lila's characteristics came into the picture. I sited her as
an example of one who is without intellect, but one who is also dynamic. I
thought this answered the question in the negative. No, intellect is not a
pre-requisite for dynamism. Then the question sort of morphed into the
broader one reflected in the subject line, "can only humans respond to DQ."
And this question is answered in the quote you provided, but in the rush to
refute my assertions about Lila, you apparently lost track of the topic once
again and missed it. As anyone can see in this quote, even cells and animals
can be dynamic.
"The cells Dynamically invented animals to preserve and improve their
situation. The animals Dynamically invented societies, and societies
Dynamically invented intellectual knowledge for the same reasons.
Therefore, to the question, "What is the purpose of all this intellectual
knowledge?" the Metaphysics of Quality answers, "The fundamental
purpose of knowledge is to Dynamically improve and preserve society."
Knowledge has grown away from this historic purpose and become an
end in itself just as society has grown away from its original purpose of
preserving physical human beings and become an end in itself, and this
growing away from original purposes toward greater Quality is a moral
growth. But those original purposes are still there. And when things get
lost and go adrift it is useful to remember that point of departure."
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