From: Steve Peterson (peterson.steve@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 17:00:10 GMT
Hi Mark,
You said:
> Does anyone like sweet and sour?
> There has only ever been one occasion upon which it worked for me;
> the meal was neither sweet nor sour, but a third indescribable taste
> which was quite exquisite. This taste does not have a name in English?
> Maybe it has one in Chinese? Every other occasion i had tried the dish
> it failed to hit the mark - failed to exist in the moment as that
> which it should be.
> The thing is, when you taste it, it is superb.
>
> Now it seems to me we have here not only an example of the ripeness
> of a meal well prepared - a human art form - a living example of SQ-SQ
> coherence, but it may also serve as an analogy for SQ-SQ coherence
> itself by extension? Here we have cuisine were on another day we may
> have chosen the best tuning of a motorcycle and our relationship to it
> as the example?
>
> Here is what i have in mind: Sour = Static pattern. Sweet = static
> pattern. Both together form a tension which is dissonance. But, bring
> the two static patterns into harmony and they dissipate into a third
> state while simultaneously retaining their static structure. This
> third state is SQ-SQ coherence - that point at which DQ intervenes.
>
> Please forgive me if this example appears superfluous? However, i do
> feel a master chef would be complimented upon a metaphysical
> description of his art? Unless of course you told him his cooking was
> dissonant!
Steve:
This example helped me to understand SQ-SQ coherence.
Thanks,
Steve
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