Re: MD intellectual level

From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sat Jan 10 2004 - 02:08:27 GMT

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    In a message dated 1/8/04 8:59:39 PM GMT Standard Time, jhmau@sbcglobal.net
    writes:

    > On 06 Jan 2004 11:24 AM Mark writes
    >
    > >> The intellectual level in the MoQ has evolved a repertoire of static
    >> quality intellectual patterns.
    >>
    >> The sum total of the repertoire is evolving in an event stream, or DQ.
    >>
    >> The evolution of the static repertoire is towards greater coherence with
    >> DQ.
    >>
    >> The important point to note is this view is not a Substance metaphysics.
    >> It is a Process metaphysics.
    >>
    >>
    >> There can be no Subjects or Objects in a process metaphysics, which
    >> correspond exactly to Subjects and Objects as described in a Substance metaphysics,
    >> because all processes merge and evolve simultaneously in the event stream.
    >>
    >> Differentiation's in language are convenient inventions of the intellect,
    >> and Substance is one such invention of the intellect which has solidified
    >> differentiation into an unnecessarily and unhelpful aspect of our mythos.
    >>
    >> However, this convention, being an unhelpful and unnecessary invention of
    >> the intellect, is free to be modified or abandoned for a better invention -
    >> and that alternative invention already existed before Substance metaphysics,
    >> continued to be developed since the emergence of Substance metaphysics, and
    >> may be explored afresh today.
    >>
    >> Thus, we can see inventions of the intellect are there to be chosen on the
    >> basis of value, and should not be mistaken for intellect itself.
    >>
    >> joe: Phaedrus listened to the chairman's: "TRAP! He's using the dialogue
    >> to prove the holiness of reason.....Phaedrus says, 'All this is just an
    >> analogy.'" (p. 388) "Rhetoric, 1: Dialectic, 0." (p. 389) "As best I know,
    >> Aristotle's opinion is that dialectic comes before everything
    >> else.....Rhetoric, 2; Dialectic, 0." (p. 390)
    >>
    >> IMO One student hears and rebels against the analogous mythos. Another
    >> student hears and accepts the analogous mythos.
    >>
    >> What a wonder when you write, Mark, "It is a Process metaphysics."!
    >> Questions about the process: is it an instinctive sensing of reality? Does the
    >> 'sweet spot' represent a harmony of different melodies?
    >>
    >> Joe
    >>
    >>
    >

    Hi Joe,
    You hit the nail on the head for me, in that sensing IS being in harmony. We
    sense harmony, and the better the harmony, the sweeter and more unified
    experience - the closer to DQ without destruction.
    I am a bit lost for words, i must say...
    All the best,
    Mark.

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