From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 18:22:22 BST
Hi Bart and everyone
Could I ask you to please use plain text when replying to moq.org. Your HTML
is hard for me to read and it's also against the forum rules.
Your questions may have seemed ignorant to some people but not to me. I
thought them good questions or I wouldn't have taken time to answer -- I
don't feel the need to discuss the absurd. I've no education in philosophy
either, never mind the book I put together.
I think you'll enjoy reading Bodvar's and Anthony's work. Though I've read
Anthony's MOQ Textbook I haven't had the chance to study it as it deserves.
It is a very significant piece of work.
Your mathematical algorithm analogy reminds me of the part in Lila about
causality: 'A causes B' becomes 'B values precondition A' in the MOQ, so if
I understand you right, it sounds spot on.
Thank you for your reply,
Dan
>From: Bart Scholten <scholten.b@hetnet.nl>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Subject: Re: MD cultural level??
>Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 15:14:17 +0200
>
>Hello Dan and others,
>
>Thanks for your answers. Also being new to this list, my questions may seem
>ignorant. I have no education in philosophy, being a computer engineer with
>interest in literature and now it looks like philosophy as well. I have
>printed Bodvarıs essay The Quality Event and will read that (in Norwegian)
>as well as Anthony McWattıs Text book.
>In the answer you gave me Dan (and the previous night thinking about the
>subject) I recognize an analogy with a mathematical algorithm, where the
>outcome (shape of curve or object) of the algorithm (the components being
>social and intellectual patterns) is dependant on the values assigned to
>each of the components of the algorithm. I am not sure where this leads to,
>it just stroke me.
>
>Regards,
>Bart Scholten
>
>At the risk of ruining your reading: Lila's Child, annotation #28, RMP
>writes: "For precision, I would say a culture contains social and
>intellectual values, but not biological or inorganic." Annotation #47
>reads:
>"I think a culture should be defined as social patterns plus intellectual
>patterns." So it's not that there's a level above social and intellectual
>levels but rather, according to the MOQ, those levels together can be
>viewed
>as culture.
>
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