Re: MD How do conservative values support DQ and the evolution of SQ?

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@cox.net)
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 01:47:42 BST

  • Next message: David Zentgraf: "Re: MD Consciousness/MOQ, definition of"

    David M,
    DM said:
    So what's the problem. DQ is one end of the pole,
    universal end, the individual is the other end. DQ
    is universal so no human being without it, individuals
    are singular as well and have to be creative in
    situations that are unique to them but impacting the whole

    Scott:
    That doesn't sound right to me. DQ is universal only in the sense that it is
    ubiquitous, like "everything". What we admire about DQ is creativity, and
    creativity only shows up (as far as we can tell) in individuals. In answer
    to Arlo's question "what is an individual" I responded "An individual is a
    decision-maker, an observer of the decisions made by itself and others, an
    evaluator of those decisions, and the creator of new patterns in order to
    change the range of choices". (I do not assume that the class of individuals
    is restricted to human beings, but those are the only ones we ordinarily
    know about. A horse is not an individual, since its behavior is governed by
    instinct, but perhaps in some esoteric sense the horse species is an
    individual.) It is only in individuals that we can directly observe DQ in
    action.

    - Scott

    MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
    Mail Archives:
    Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
    Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
    MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net

    To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
    http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Sep 05 2005 - 02:39:25 BST