From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 10:42:41 BST
Hi Johnny, Platt
Platt said to Paul:
To focus on intellect without acknowledging the individual is like
putting the cart before the horse, or more appropriately, to eliminate
the vital role of the horse altogether....While you emphasize the
transcendent nature of of successful intellectual patterns, I emphasize
the originator or creator of such patterns.
Johnny said:
Isn't the orignator Quality? And doesn't the individual have the same
role for patterns of every level?
Do you feel that an individual could come up with an intellectual
pattern from out of the blue? I mean, how come no one invented the jet
airplane in the bronze age? Why did the propellor plane have to be
invented first?
Paul:
This is a good observation, Johnny. Platt seems to be taking the SOM
view of a primary, independent, thinking individual (the horse) who goes
around originating and possessing individual intellectual patterns (the
cart) at will. The evolutionary framework of the MOQ shows us that such
an individual is neither possible nor metaphysically sound, but is
instead a set of patterns that have Dynamically evolved, step by step,
from atomic preference to systems of symbolic thought:
"It isn't Lila that has quality; it's Quality that has Lila. Nothing can
have Quality. To have something is to possess it, and to possess
something is to dominate it. Nothing dominates Quality. If there's
domination and possession involved, it's Quality that dominates and
possesses Lila. She's created by it. She's a cohesion of changing static
patterns of this Quality. There isn't any more to her than that. The
words Lila uses, the thoughts she thinks, the values she holds, are the
end product of three and a half billion years of the history of the
entire world. She's a kind of jungle of evolutionary patterns of value.
She doesn't know how they all got there any more than any jungle knows
how it came to be." [LILA, Ch.11]
As such, to continue Platt's analogy - the horse would be (Dynamic)
Quality and the cart would be the static patterns.
cheers
Paul
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