From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Wed May 05 2004 - 00:48:19 BST
Dear Forum,
This is the latest in a series of musings regarding SQ-SQ Coherence.
I had occasion to think about a comment Sartre makes in Being and Nothingness
regarding puberty and Mystic experience. I began to apply the MoQ and SQ-SQ
coherence:
Event stream (DQ) (SODV) --------> Coherence <-------- DQ evolution goal
(Lila)
As often happens in these moments, there was a feeling of insight.
I began to think about:
1. The Biological Dynamic of puberty.
2. The Catholic Church.
3. Platonic relationships.
4. Social dominance of biological patterns.
5. High coherence as Mytsic union.
6. The aesthetic of the prepubescent.
Puberty has a significant social role in many cultures, and i do not feel it
to be coincidental that it is at exactly this moment the Catholic Church
chooses to organise social patterning to its advantage?
In the language of SQ-SQ coherence, biological patterns of the individual are
becoming highly sensitive to biological Quality. This is to say the
repertoire of biological patterns which compose the individual are reaching high SQ-SQ
tension, or coherence.
As appears evident at these coherent states, DQ is most influential? Indeed,
exceptional Coherence has been suggested to approach Mystic Union. (The edge
of Chaos.) High Coherence has also been suggested to be a definition of beauty.
(The edge of Chaos.) Plato's description of Love and Socrates' use of
pre-pubescence to direct the psuche towards the Good fits well here. Also, the
Catholic Church uses this moment to appropriate the experience of Coherence to
pattern analogues in the form of Mary, Jesus, the holy trinity etc.
I feel it is also appropriate to indicate the manifold popular songs and art
of the 19th and 20th century which attest to the biological value placed upon
pubescent aesthetic. Thus, Capitalism appropriates high biological and social
coherence for the dissemination of commodity.
It is the becoming static nature of the collapse of coherence which is being
directed at this sweet spot; In the direction of Biological patterns, puberty
is a measure of fertility, in the direction of the Social level it may become
patterned in a religious or economic system, at the Intellectual level?
Plato suggested that men reached their Intellectual maturity later than
puberty; the Platonic relationship between the lover and his beloved was that
between a pubescent and an older man. (Perhaps our information rich culture, with
its sophisticated institutions has replaced this relationship with technology
to some extent?)
May it be appropriate to speculate that Intellectual maturity requires a
Coherent nature of Biological and Social patterns to be established before it can
attend to itself?
Do Church scholars have an advantage here?
Or do Intellectuals reject Biological and Social Coherence thus becoming
'geeks' and 'misfits', with all that Dynamic drive being channelled into creative
art? No doubt the Freudians would argue this to be sublimation and
transferance?
Coherence and puberty - an engine room of DQ at the Biological and Social
level, conflict in fine balancing at the edge of chaos? I feel much could be
learned from a sustained analysis of this phase in MoQ terms.
All the best,
Mark
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