From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 09:16:42 BST
Hi Joe,
This was really interesting. At the moment I don't have a direct comment; I just want to mull on it
for a while. If I could try to summarise it, would it be fair to say the following: that all of
reality is quality, but whether it is sq or dq depends entirely upon our perception?
Sam
"Even to have expressed a false thought boldly and clearly is already to have gained a great deal."
Wittgenstein, 1948
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <jhmau@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: MD Awareness and intuition.
: Hi Sam and All,
:
: Your post of 22 April 2003 2:23 AM was thought provoking. I answered what
: Icould, but the stew of "instinctive sensing of reality" keeps bubbling.
:
: I want to examine a pattern intuited from the activity of a brain intuiting
: the dq aspect from the point of view of the brain's relationship to
: awareness. I have changed the subject name to MD Awareness and intuition.
:
: Excerpts from AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE by William Blake:
: To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
: And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
: Hold infinity in the Palm of your Hand,
: And eternity in an Hour.
:
: To see a World in a Grain of Sand? It seems reasonable that anything can be
: reduced to smaller particles. I will do some supposing. Suppose that the
: smallest particle of something learned in a pattern is a vibration in a
: medium. Dq is undefined and will only be an aspect of a patttern. Is it
: possible that what I learn includes much more than I am aware of.
:
: I will list some mediums of vibrations. Light moves through a continuum
: generated by the sun and planets. Gravity surrounds the earth. Is
: awareness a field generated by my DNA? Our planet has a thinning atmosphere
: as I climb higher. Our planet contains a magnetic field. Shock waves pass
: through the Earth.
:
: Suppose that I have different brains to interpret vibrations from different
: mediums, e.g., Earth, magnetic field, atmosphere, gravity, awareness,
: continuum. Is it reasonable that an instinctive sense of reality is
: configured to derive patterns from vibrations? The inorganic pattern is
: known by contact, light, and sound. The organic pattern is known in its
: rebellion against gravity. The simplest organic organisms are one-brained.
: They intuit a dq aspect different from gravity. The social pattern is known
: in its means of reproduction. The social organisms are two-brained,
: intuiting two aspects of dq. The intellectual pattern is known in its
: certainty for action. The intellectual organisms are three-brained. They
: can intuit three aspects of dq in a pattern, namely, purpose, existence, and
: quality. "To see a World in a Grain of Sand" can mean an awareness of the dq
: in a sq pattern of evolution, a vibration.
:
: While singing, I can raise or lower the note. I shape the vibrations in air
: with the form of my mouth and throat. I form patterns and create another's
: acceptance or rejection by intensifying the pattern.
: Musical notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do, or A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, or
: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, indicate intervals. The intervalls have depth, flat
: or sharp. The chords based on those notes have been given names: Tonic,
: Supertonic, Mediant, Sub-dominant, Dominant, Sub-mediant, Seventh or leading
: tone, Tonic (octave) or I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, I. "Some notes sound
: better together than others....In any key, there are three chords which
: appear in virtually every basic progression." THE GUITAR HANDBOOK, by Ralph
: Denyer, p. 78. "Chords are ordinarily built by superposing intervals of a
: third....The simplest chord is the triad, a chord of three tones obtained by
: the superposition of two thirds." HARMONY, by Walter Piston, Thnird Edition,
: p. 10. "Consonant and dissonant intervals. A consonant interval is one
: which sounds stable and complete whereas the characteristic of the dissonant
: interval is its restlessness and its need for resolution into a consonant
: interval. These qualities are admittedly open to subjective, personal, and
: evolutionary interpretation but it is clear that in the common practice of
: composers the following classification holds true.
: Consonant-the perfect intervals and the major and minor thirds and
: sixths.
: Dissonant- the augmented and diminished intervals and the major and
: minor seconds, sevenths, and ninths.
: (Exception- the perfect fourth is dissonant when there is no tone
: below its lower tone. It is consonant when there is a third or perfect
: fifth below it.)" op. cit., p.6.
:
: I compare intuiting the three aspects of dq in a sq pattern to hearing a
: musical chord. I sense the aspect 'I learn' the note C, the aspect 'I move'
: the note G, the aspect 'I am' the note F. All three notes are present in a
: quality pattern, a C major chord. My awareness can include the tonic chord
: from one brain, the dominant from a second brain, the sub-dominant from a
: third brain. Dq intuited in different aspects. The pattern contains the dq
: like the tonic of three different keys. Variations in the pattern change
: intensity. I am aware. I remember. 'I am', the sub-dominant chord, is a
: dissonant interval anless another stands below it. Each step is unique, and
: if not followed precisely the tone augments or diminishes--I see shadows in
: a cave, or I do what I do not want to do, or I become what I hate.
:
: My awareness generated by my DNA is also a pattern. Unlike other patterns
: this is my individual pattern. I compare the dq aspects of my awareness to
: a G major Chord. Initially I resonate to the G, the tonic in other
: patterns, and then the dominant D, then sub-dominant C. I do not resonate
: to the note F from the previous example, unless I change my awareness. This
: would be a dq movement. I change my awareness, I learn something new, I
: become more. I make an effort to thear F. I am not ordinarily aware of my
: brains. With effort I can separate out dq activity in a pattern. This is
: my interpretation of Pirsig's distinction between dq and sq.
:
: Joe
:
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