Re: LS PROGRAM: MOQ Catechism

1999-03-14 Thread Magnus Berg
Hi Squad As many have said, there are countless ways to introduce the MoQ to a person. Since we only have 45 minutes, we can't tell them all, so which one do we pick? We could, as Diana suggested, reduce the MoQ to some short principles, or to be really brief, just the one sentence - Good is a

Re: LS static Dynamic

1999-05-04 Thread Magnus Berg
Hi Roger, David and Squad [Rog]If I wanted to "go to DQ", which direction should I head? You should go in a non-direction, like Monty Python's 100m for people with no sense of direction. Everyone is talking about "things" being more or less DQ, but it all becomes much easier if we talk about

Re: LS Peels

1999-05-24 Thread Magnus Berg
Hi Rich You wrote: Dynamic Quality IS the Subject static Quality are THE objects This really got my attention. If this was the case, it would mean that the MoQ is the same as SOM, right? The most fundamental MoQ terms would be the same as the most fundamental SOM terms. What

LS CALL FOR TOPICS June 1999

1999-05-26 Thread Magnus Berg
Hi Squad T-6 days to June so start posting topic suggestions for the next month right away. Suggestions will be collected until 29/5, then the voting will start 30/5. Hold your votes until then, I'll post a call for votes when it's time. Magnus MOQ Online - http://www.moq.org

LS CALL FOR VOTES June 1999

1999-05-30 Thread Magnus Berg
Hi Squad There weren't that many suggestions for June but here they are. Go ahead and vote until May 31 24:00 GMT Magnus 1. We know about the levels inorganic, biological, social, intellectual, BUT let's take a closer look at moral codes. Pirsig argues that there are five moral

Re: LS CALL FOR VOTES - August 1999

1999-07-30 Thread Magnus Berg
I vote for number 2 2) DENIS POISSON (VIA BODVAR): If DNA is the "machine code" between the inorganic and the biological, what's the "machine code" between the biological and the social? Between the social and the intellect (mythos? language?) How do they work? Magnus MOQ.org -

Re: LS Re: SOM and the intellect

1999-09-17 Thread Magnus Berg
comes to mind and I would happily accept such an argument but we have the Strawsons of this world to cope with. Magnus Berg always stressed the universality of a metaphysics, there's nothing outside it. The map metaphor suggests an (objective) reality that we constantly keep mapping, but Pirsig

Re: LS Denis is searching for Quality and the Net is the new Agora

1999-09-21 Thread Magnus Berg
Hi Denis and Squad That's a truly unique feature, you can't have a cup of coffee inside itself. You can't have any other type of pattern inside itself. Right. But it's language, not Intellect, that has that propriety. In my previous post, I truncated the official definition for