From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 00:10:13 BST
Joe,
Joe said:
I am amazed that Platt, you, and Matt refuse to accept that
intuition is a meaningful approach to dq.
Matt:
It's not that I don't think intuition is a meaningful approach to Dynamic Quality. When intuition is thought of as something seperate from static patterns, then I doubt its existence. For pragmatists, intuition is simply a un- or subconscious thought, but that doesn't make it unpatterned. In other words, intuitions are still formed by the static patterns that make us up, the web of beliefs and desires that we refer to as "I". I think the attempt to make Reason and Intuition distinct from each other is another remnant of Platonic philosophy by way of the post-Enlightenment reaction of the Romantics. On a pragmatic reading, the Romantics inverted Enlightenment philosophy by making Intuition and Imagination the center of humanity's greatness, rather than of Reason. The reason it is an inversion is because the Enlightenment thought of Reason as putting us in touch with a Reality Behind Appearances. The Romanitcs, on the other hand, accepted the distinction between Reason
and Intuition, but said that it was Intuition that put us in touch with Reality. Pragmatists like myself think trying to get in touch with a Reality Behind Appearances is a project doomed to failure, or at least to spinning in its tracks. For pragmatists, reason and intuition are on a continuum. Reason is a conscious effort and intuition a subconscious effort. The more conscious your effort at generating an idea, the more you can be said to be using reason. The more subconscious, the more intuitive.
So, when you try and say that intuition is a meaningful approach to DQ, I can only agree. For everything I've been saying about DQ, when we have a feeling that X, as a break from tradition, is a good thing, we don't have established, intellectualized reasons for it till after the fact. We don't generate DQ by using a method a preestablished criteria. DQ is the lightbulb going off in your head. You can generate all the reasons for it being a good idea later, but the initial lightbulb is, you might say, an intuition, a subconscious feeling, based on static patterns, but not generated by something guided.
Matt
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