Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-07-05 Thread Marco
fast on a dead end way. The only idea that something is good as the Founding Fathers said that does not sounds very Dynamic to my hears. In the end people kill people not guns. By means of what? Marco p.s. 1 Gerhard: It the moment I'm not certain that MoQ are defining my goal, as I

Re: MD Pirsig's hypocrisy

2001-07-03 Thread Marco
with a strange sort of paralysis as Rigel's boat turned and then headed back north across the bay. (end of Chapter 31) Bye, Marco - Original Message - From: Platt Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 2:53 PM Subject: Re: MD Pirsig's hypocrisy Hi Marco

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-07-02 Thread Marco
Platt, Marco Anyway Platt, as I wrote once, here in Italy even the atheists are catholic. When we say that we put human life above everything we are probably meaning something a guy called Jesus used to say many years ago. I'm not very religious, but I've always read in the MOQ

Re: MD Pirsig's hypocrisy

2001-07-02 Thread Marco
sort. I don't know if you are trying to use the MOQ as a moral compass, but if the compass says you have to go North, could well be that sometimes it is better to have a little detour. Ad maiora Marco p.s. Further, Marco, Andrea and Gerhard find plenty in the MOQ to support humanitarian

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-07-02 Thread Marco
capital punishment. Perhaps a Nazi scenario would have been more effective. I think there is a time and place for capital punishment although it is infrequent. Marco: I think that if capital punishment is wrong in McVeigh's case, well, it's always wrong. In *extreme conditions* I don't deny

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-07-01 Thread Marco
be that your friend is the serial killer! Or even you, if they both agree. Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-07-01 Thread Marco
Glen Marco, You seem pretty uptight about this racist thing. You think you've never had a rascist thought or never made a racist statement before? Could be, but I'm pretty sure that my post about Nigeria was completely anti-racist. On the other hand, I think that exploitation of weak

Re: MD The Education System

2001-06-29 Thread marco
or senescence? Generally, the older we get, the more we appreciate static Quality (or, on the other hand, we fear DQ). Maybe we can have wisdom just for one moment, somewhere in the middle of our life... when Dynamic enthousiasm and static prudence are in perfect armony. Marco Midway

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-29 Thread Marco
, once the conceiver has been reduced to impotence, the best way to demonstrate his mistakes is to convince him he was wrong. Of course, my words are useless, as I'm pretty sure that the 80% of death penalty supporters are just supporting a stupid vengeance... bye, Marco MOQ.ORG - http

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-29 Thread Marco
there is not the right model. We are not teaching freedom. We are teaching that there's another big and ugly white tribe. Not really a good presage. Ciao Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from

Re: MD Religion/God ~ MoQ/DQ

2001-06-26 Thread marco
on increasing. The doomsday picture of absolute disorder is a situation that cannot be reached. oopsss... hope I've not disclosed any secret! :-) Marco, in energetic terms, closed means that their is no input our output of energy. There is no reason the system can't go on expanding in space. Ah

Re: MD Emotions

2001-06-25 Thread Marco
Rasheed, Maggie, and emotive moqers Marco, i like your three branches of the intellectual division idea. the only thing i wonder about is how morals are incorporated into the spiritual and emotional level. Actually, I was not referring to emotional/artistic and spiritual/mystic knowledge

Re: MD Emotions

2001-06-25 Thread marco
Hi Rasheed, Platt Rasheed: My perception of the 'code of art' was wrong, thanks for clearing it up. However, because t is in fact a fourth Dynamic morality, doesnt that in itself point to a fifth level? Marco: Who knows? The only important thing is that, fifth or not fifth, we still have

Re: MD Religion/God ~ MoQ/DQ

2001-06-25 Thread Marco
the *old* universe. That is, entropy can't be reached. It seems too easy. Tell me where I'm wrong. :-) Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http

Re: MD Emotions

2001-06-25 Thread Marco
Hi Brian, Marco: Another thing I've noticed is that my cat *prefers* to sleep on clean dresses, and on my bed when it's well arranged. Otherwise, if the bed is all messed up, she uses to sleep on an old chair. In the past, another cat had different fondnesses. I'd not point to that exactly

Re: MD Real Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-25 Thread Marco
to explain while intelligent MOQers like 3wDave, Clarke, Platt and Roger and others are anti socialists, while likewise intelligent MOQers like Horse, Jonathan, Gerhard, Andrea and others are socialists. Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail

Re: MD Evolution, Wilber and Whitehead

2001-06-20 Thread Marco
are patterns of the same biological level So I wonder why the insights of Aristotle, Michelangelo and Buddha can't be patterns of the same intellectual level... Sorry for my impertinence and thanks for reading Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk

Re: MD Our special glasses

2001-06-19 Thread Marco
for a more inclusive truth. The *larger umbrella* Roger's talks about. Ciao Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md

Re: MD Our special glasses

2001-06-18 Thread Marco
. And that's enough. Roger: The quest is to find the imperfections in our own view. My compatriot Andrea wrote once: all we can do is to find a better mistake. Ciao Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MD Intellect over society?

2001-06-18 Thread Marco
Hi Andrea, thanks for your comments. I'm in total agreement, so, not much to say. I also think that Human Rights are a good set of static intellectual patterns, and there's no reason to believe they can't be dynamically increased. Ciao, Marco - Original Message - From: Andrea Sosio

Re: MD God and the MoQ

2001-06-18 Thread Marco
Q bless you. thanks for your comments Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD God and the MoQ

2001-06-17 Thread Marco
, if you want. It doesn't change a lot. DQ bless you Marco - Original Message - From: Wim Nusselder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:05 PM Subject: Re: MD God and the MoQ Dear Matt, Thanks for fleshing yourself out (13/6 18:29 -0500). Your

Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-15 Thread Marco
to Europe! ROG: You have been stressing the need for competing systems for a half year now. You taught me well my brother! Well, I'm a terrible stubborn. Sorry for the stress. :-) So, do we have any outstanding issues? No, I'd say. Ad Meliora Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail

Re: MD Toffler waves or Q-intellectual evolution?

2001-06-14 Thread Marco
. The reptiles curve is over. Bye Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD God and the MoQ

2001-06-14 Thread Marco
a little astray, but MD is unmoderated, so I think it's unavoidable. But there is also MF, that is moderated and where (the name explains that very well ) the focus on the MOQ is more strictly observed; and, by the way, the flux of mails is a little more calm. Hope to see you also there! Ciao Marco

Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-11 Thread Marco
. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality. Marco p.s. I'm completely with Jonathan about the military option (even if I hated my conscription) p.p.s. Roger, I forgot to say how I like your new mot Viva la evolution!, much better than ICBW.. - Original

Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-11 Thread Marco
Score is 90%. And for our past government: it was left-liberal Personal Self-Government Score is 70%. Economic Self-Government Score is 10%. Hard times for libertarians, here ! Ad Meliora Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD

Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up

2001-06-11 Thread Marco
corporations just want to swindle us. Maybe we are both right? Ad meliora Marco - Original Message - From: Andrea Sosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:09 PM Subject: Re: MD True Libertarians Please Stand Up Gerhard: You're right about drug

Re: MD Intellect over society?

2001-06-08 Thread Marco
we're buying with these boats is space, nothingness, emptiness ... huge sweeps of open water ... and sweeps of time with nothing to do ... That's worth a lot of money. You can't hardly find that stuff anymore». thanks for your attention Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http

Re: MD Intellect over society?

2001-06-06 Thread Marco
Platt, I'm going to be a little hard. Marco: The superiority of capitalism over communism resides in the dynamism ensured by capitalism at the social level. So, I think it would be moral to have a dynamic form of intellect (more dynamic than SOM), as counterpart of the social dynamism

Re: MD Intellect over society?

2001-06-06 Thread Marco
criticism to the market a terrific sign of Stalinism? Tombola! Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

MD Intellect over society?

2001-06-05 Thread Marco
of artists. thanks for reading Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-06-02 Thread Marco
Rasheed, and an aside to Platt: Rasheed: Marco said: 'a) The free market is Victorian. According to all what RMP uses to say about Victorians, maybe it could be possible to find something better' I dont know how the free market is supposedly Victorian, didn't Pirsig explain that his

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-30 Thread Marco
Americans, but the system. It's quite different. I appreciate a lot your attachment to your system, just it seems to me that, from this different viewpoint, all this morality of an unruled capitalism is not very clear. Bye Marco p.s. by the way. The very funny thing in all this thread is that I AM

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-29 Thread marco
3WD It is a pity that Bo is no longer an active subscriber. It would be interesting to hear his take on this issue vis a vis the MoQ. Hi Dave, hope it can be of help. Bo (16 Oct 2000 to MF): In chap. 17 (on page 224 bantam ed. 1991) Mr. Pirsig writes. When they call it freedom,

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-29 Thread marco
markets. Bye Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

RE: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-29 Thread marco
Marco Roughly speaking, Capitalism does not find advantages in developing poor nations. Instead of creating there new markets, it tends to create new products in the old markets. Lawry Actually, many 3rd world markets are emerging and are now important to the US economy as buyers

Re: MD In Defense Of Socialism?

2001-05-28 Thread Marco
Talking with a Yankee about socialism is like talking with a catholic priest about sex. They both don't practice it, nevertheless they feel the right to pontificate about it. (Marco, 28 May 2001) The question is: WHAT Socialism? It is obvious from Rog's words that he feels socialism antithetic

Re: MD md death penalty

2001-05-26 Thread Marco
. Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD md death penalty

2001-05-25 Thread marco
of the market (society) owning ideas (intellect). My conclusion is that our democracies have a precise limit: politicians, writers, opinion leaders have to be polular; but today , in order to pursue Quality, we need dreams, courage, and even unpopularity. Bye Marco p.s. I strongly thank all

Re:MD Bye

2001-05-22 Thread marco
Is there still someone who wants to save this engulfing boat? MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Authors Rights

2001-05-21 Thread marco
be cancelled, but let's not forget that Dan worked on it about two years. Maybe it was possible to stop him before. bye Marco p.s. I think in this occasion too many people are not applying the MOQ to a real life event. We all are very clever to claim the MOQ when we talk about Reality

Re: MD Source of ZMM epigraph?

2001-05-18 Thread marco
of writing... but maybe Elephant has more to say about it? Bye Marco What is the source of ZMM's epigraph - presumably from a Platonic dialogue: And what is good, Phaedrus... ? Book and line number would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark

Re: MD Query

2001-04-27 Thread Marco
TBard and all, the term was coined circa 1600-1700 AD using the root Hellene ... Hellenistic uses the -istic suffix to mean it was like Greek culture And how do you think they will call our times, circa 2600-2700 AD? Anglistic, Americanistic. ? :-) Marco MOQ.ORG - http

Ri:MD Query

2001-04-26 Thread marco
it is a period that is immediately subsequent to the Athenian golden age of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. In those times, the Greek (Hellenic) culture *invaded* the whole mediterranean, and actually the main Hellenistic cultural center (Alexandria) was not in Greece, but in Aegypt. KALH ESPERA Marco

Re: MD Pure Quality!

2001-04-24 Thread marco
to be defined by immediate perception). In the immediate, the man actually feels that *collecting money to build a hospital in Africa is the good thing to do (now)* MARCO HAD ANSWERED: The MOQish is NOT mystic. He does not think that the future is illusion, he just think that in order to attain

Re: MD Pure Quality!

2001-04-23 Thread Marco
your money? No, it does not work. I'll try to find a solution: ANDREA: Quality cannot be concerned with outcomes. On one hand, this is trivial from a logical standpoint (if A is good because it brings B, then it is B that's good). MARCO: Your logic works (just let me say that it's funny you

Re: MD Pure Quality!

2001-04-23 Thread marco
of Quality that leads to creativity, AND the aware ability to forecast and consolidate results, that leads to the static latch. BOTH DYNAMIC AND STATIC. :-) sorry if I've been a little hard to the mystics Marco. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-15 Thread Marco
rced. Rog: I support the progression of experience to awareness to consciousness. [...] I would say Marco and I have reached a consensus on the issue. Me: Could be but it is strange that you are not in agreement with the other PROs, and I feel I'm not in disagreement with them. And you have be

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-13 Thread Marco
c quality. And evaluate the experience according to four possible levels. There's a continuity, VALUE, and a discontinuity, the kind of EVALUATION. The more we go back to the basic levels, the more the evaluation is immediate (that is: non-mediated), as memory is more weak at those levels. The more w

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-13 Thread Marco
Yes, I guess. Are you trying to lead me somewhere? :-) - Original Message - From: "Platt Holden" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 3:02 PM Subject: Re: MD Atomic awareness To Marco: From: Platt Are you OK with "atoms experie

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-08 Thread Marco
Roger, Platt, Jonathan and all aware and unaware people. ROG: Does someone want to try to wrap up the issue and offer a solution that we can all agree on? Or do we still need to hash out a few issues? Marco, you still out there? MARCO: Here I am! I'm very flattered you ask for my

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-04 Thread marco
ng question is "Where does our awareness come from?" Ciao Marco MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-02 Thread Marco
nowledge? ... NO. (Intellectually) we are knowledge. Are we sensible? NO. (Biologically) we are sensation. We are the experience of DQ. And atoms, as well, are the inorganic experience of DQ. What else? JONATHAN: While recognizing Pirsig's tremendous contribution, I also note his statement (in an old messa

MD A TUTTI GLI ITALIANI IN ASCOLTO

2001-04-01 Thread Marco
x.html Vi aspettiamo QUI ! Un saluto affettuoso Marco Bonarelli Tony Siino www.moq.org/italia [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instruction

Re: MD Atomic awareness

2001-04-01 Thread Marco
ess and free will are, simply, the possibility to be dynamic, and that this principle is valid at all levels. tks Marco p.s. Of course my words have no sense according to the Elephant position that all "things" are mind games. This is the basic disagreement. MOQ.ORG - http://w

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-24 Thread Marco
Andrea, Elephant, T.Bard, Platt, Jonathan, all ** Mercoledi 21 Marzo, Andrea wrote: So we have two positions: Marco (previously): "all roads are good". Elephant: "only one road produces tranquility." Actually I wrote

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-19 Thread Marco
her a road that is comfortably high-quality at this point is really going to be *ultimately* satisfactory. It may still be a nice road, and lead off in the wrong direction, hence: not all roads are real roads to the good and the true. MARCO: In a MOQ context, this is a contradiction. RMP: "If the m

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-17 Thread Marco
Elephant and all Gravitons, ELEPHANT: But do all roads lead to the truth? MARCO: All roads are true. ELEPHANT: Hm. Long pause before I replied to that one. Can't think of anything very much to say to that. Except maybe "really?". MARCO: Maybe I had to write "All roa

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-17 Thread Marco
a small mistake, sorry. about Heraclitus and Lao-Tze I had to write that they both describe reality in terms of oppositions. In Heraclitus reality is a STRUGGLE of oppositions, not certainly an harmony. Ciao. The Italian writer Luciano de Crescenzo in his book about Heraclitus "Panta Rei"

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-11 Thread Marco
Elephant, As we walk along the road, care to comment on my throwaway line that you overlooked? The one about maps: MARCO WROTE: I agree with Roger about the warning in the bottom of the map. But I would like to discuss the map, here: actually, maps are the only things we can

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-08 Thread Marco
elephant, MARCO: But this was not our only disagreement. There is another one, and it's about the patternmakers. In your opinion, intellect (language) is the only patternmaker. Again according to my edition of the map, they are four. My map says that when intellect works

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-07 Thread Marco
ity. When I say that intellect does not come first, you accuse me of numericism, failing to recognize that also my edition of the map says that first of all there is DQ. bye Marco p.s. well, 'sorry' is all I can think of to say. Oh, I'm sorry too. If (I felt that) we were on a dead end way, su

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-03 Thread Marco
Marco To Elephant and all insiders there is nothing to do. the more I try, the more you put in my mouth words I've never said. I think this is my last answer to you on this thread. Actually it is not even an answer. We both failed. I think I'll go on with Roger, if he wants. Take my post

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-03 Thread Marco
Marco to 3WD, Glenn, Platt and all Many thanks, Dave, for your contribution. 3WD: If "Quality is ..direct experience" and "..."a thing that has no value (quality) does not exist. The thing has not created the value. The value has created the thing." So for a

Re: MD Inside and Outside

2001-03-03 Thread Marco
Marco To Roger and all insiders: MARCO (to ELEPHANT): I will start from your point that the *outside* reality is dynamic, while *inside* the world is static. ROG: I reject this split. In and out are static divisions as well... probably the primary static split. I don't think Elephant

Re: MD Ponderings...

2001-02-27 Thread Marco
Marco to all the Ponderers many thanks to David Lind, Platt Holden, Elephant, ThracianBard, Jon for this thread. It's IMO a good "lateral drift" from the usual path. As everything pops out from a sentence I offered, I need to jump in. Firstly, for those who will have a bit of patie

Re: MD Some sparse (trivial?) ideas

2001-02-09 Thread Marco
MARCO TO ELEPHANT (and Andrea Sosio, Riskybiz Roger , Platt Holden, Andrew Bowen... and all MD) ... about DQ, sq, truth, beauty, language (wow!) MARCO WROTE: I think I'm stating that the static entities are unreal... as well as dynamic entities are unreal... all entities

Re: MD Heidegger

2001-02-07 Thread marco
Marco to Kevin, and all pro- and anti- Heideggerians As I wrote in a precedent message, I've also found in the past similarities between Pirsig and Heidegger. I admit I'm not an *expert* of Heidegger, and all I know about him comes from other thinkers. I've recovered a book of an Italian

Re: MD Heidegger

2001-02-06 Thread marco
Kevin, (with a p.s. to Horse and Diana) And how do you define a *legitimate* philosopher? I'm interested to become a legitimate philosopher. Can you please tell me where can I get the credentials? :-) Marco p.s. by the way, it's not the first time that Heidegger emerges on these pages

Re: MD Pirsigian Test

2001-02-01 Thread Marco
Marco to Platt Thanks for your answer, Platt. I just comment on few points. PLATT'S QUESTION: Everyone runs the same "me" program that doesn't belong to anyone? MARCO'S ANSWER: If you mean here that "my" life is not really mine, as I'm composed of a mix of

Re: MD Some sparse (trivial?) ideas

2001-01-31 Thread Marco
world around me. A good way is to understand that I'm part of this world. To surpass any division between me and the other. Let me know your thoughts Be good. Marco. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD Pirsigian Test

2001-01-27 Thread Marco
on: rising doubts, more than offering answers. The most important thing is to persuade people to search. tks for reading. Ciao Marco. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD MOQ and other species

2001-01-01 Thread Marco
y, and preserve existing species' ability to be biologically dynamic. (Perhaps this can this be justified in terms of "higher quality intellectual activity" than would exist in (a).) Platt, Elephant and Marco have contributed. I hope I have summarized your positions correctly! -

Re: MD Intellect and Art

2000-12-29 Thread Marco
MARCO ACCEPTS THE CONCLUSION OF ROGER, AND HOPES ALSO THAT PLATT AND DANILA DO AGREE. Roger, Danila, Platt and MD Roger, let me say that your post has been for me a sort of Christmas present! == a. Picasso ROG: I concede! He [Picasso] is an intellectual. Seriously. MARCO

Re: MD Intellect and Art

2000-12-28 Thread Marco
Marco to Danila thank for your comments and questions, I'll try to give my opinions and clarifications You think Art should be included in Intellect. I said that Art is equivalent to Intellect (above the Social level) but should be considered separately. Comment: Perhaps our

Re: MD Intellect and Inorganic level

2000-12-13 Thread Marco
Hi ELEPHANT, ELE wrote: ... but I just don't get how Chemistry Professors can be regarded as a "simplification" of physics (you say it is the physics you are talking about). MARCO: Let me a quick flashback. The thread was originated by this Roger's sentence: (ROGER)

Re: MD Intellect and Inorganic level

2000-12-11 Thread Marco
ELE and Roger PUZZLED ELEPHANT TO MARCO RE ENTROPY: MARCO WROTE: IMO when an electron captures energy and performs a quantum leap, it simplifies experience. IMO when light passes through a prism and splits in colors, it simplifies experience. "Experience" is simply interact

Re: MD Intellect and Art

2000-12-11 Thread Marco
Hi JoVo, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. I think we are in agreement. Soon even Roger :-) The inexorable countdown is proceeding .. I just take the occasion to say: auf wiedersehen. Marco -Messaggio Originale- Da: "Johannes Volmert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL

Re: MD Intellect and Art

2000-12-10 Thread Marco
actly the "hardcopy" of a. However, IMO even a. is, for what we know, a patterned behavior. At the same way, it's very arguable that the light splitting happens independently by the presence of a perceiver. of course only the presence of a perceiver make it possible the phenomen

MD Re: MOQ as Prescriptive Philosophy

2000-12-10 Thread Marco
to differentiate between the entity (society, intellect, etc.) and the value patterns it (can) create. YES! even though I agree with Marco that art is just as valuable an INTELLECTUAl value pattern as logical thought (really one is holistic, the other analytic), in practice the INTELLECTUAL

Re: MD Intellect

2000-12-09 Thread Marco
To PLATT and BO, Platt: I'm delighted that you have invited me to comment on your idea that art could be an extension of intellect It's me who is flattered for your comments MARCO: I consider ART (or, better, RT) the activity that can be closer to DQ. That's, in few words

Re: MD Intellect and Art

2000-12-09 Thread Marco
Roger, here is the second thread about intellect. MARCO (previous post): The inorganic world also "simplifies experience" and behaves according to patterns. But if you are using "life" also for the inorganic level, we agree. ROG: I do not know of any examples th

Re: MD Intellect, language and animals

2000-12-08 Thread Marco
ciety (to paraphrase Popper), but considering its roots into antiquity, it seems to miss any of the characteristics of an intellectual pattern. MARCO: Did I ever write that language IS intellectual? I don't remember. If I did, I was under the effect of drugs :-). Language is social. Just like DNA is inor

Re: MD Richard, Roger, Dan, Danila and the Socio-intellectual battle

2000-12-02 Thread Marco
Dear Bo, Bo == I appreciate your will to question my pet idea. Marco == When I become so maniac about something it's because I see VALUE in it. You pet idea is worth to be questioned, as IMO it contains a lot of good insights... but I also would like to separate something that is not good

Re: MD Intellectual Level Definition

2000-12-01 Thread Marco
ou forgive my little delay. ROGER == 1) Patterns are simplifications derived from the complex stream of experience. All life attends to and selects and simplifies experience into those patterns of most importance. Moving black dot = food for a frog. Electric can opener sound = food for my c

Re: MD Intellect

2000-11-28 Thread Marco
problem in defining patterns of value is that they operate on all four levels simultaneously. you can try to eliminate the possibility for patterns to operate on different levels, leaving this possibility only to things. Glad if we agree. If not let me know! Bye. Marco -Messaggio Ori

Re: MD Intellect

2000-11-27 Thread Marco
ery scientific and objective) aspect. The same term "hello" is social or intellectual, but, let me say, in this case I do prefer consider it preeminently social. I've begun with this personal view on patterns and levels, as this is probably the key to solve part of the discussion I

Re: MD Dewey/James

2000-11-26 Thread Marco
t possible to find a criterion to choose what's in and what's out? Marco. -Messaggio Originale- Da: "Spherik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: sabato 25 novembre 2000 0.50 Oggetto: Re: MD Dewey/James What's so strange about teaching Dewey up against Sc

MD Intellect (ex democracy spillover)

2000-11-15 Thread Marco
Horse, in order to make the discussion take off. In facts, I assumed the Magnus' sentence as the first step. This was my answer: == MARCO (6 June 2000, with few modifications: ) "But if a want to define "meaning" I can't find a better way than "Intellectua

Re: MD Democracy spillover

2000-11-15 Thread Marco
Roger, I divided the thread in two (Democracy and Intellect) as probably it's only the latter that needs focus. I'm glad we reached this agreement on democracy: You [Marco] are the greatest!! Your recent post was awesome, and we agree in s many ways. Let me throw out a few

MD Democracy spillover

2000-11-04 Thread Marco
. We agree on some premises: 1st: MARCO: Oh no! I have a great faith in DQ. Of course new economic genres will surface. But when? Do you think we just have to stand still and wait? For what I know, human beings can be very good vehicles for the DQ=SQ process. Isn't it a sort of mission

MD Interview with Pirsig

2000-07-19 Thread Marco
has suddenly disappeared. Did someone saved that interview in an off-line page? I would like to have and translate it for the Italian MOQ site. thanks, Marco. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED

R: MD speed, space and time

2000-06-26 Thread Marco
real intent of the information process is to evolve. Marco. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

Re: MD A quality event

2000-06-21 Thread Marco
ill see it with your eyes. And who knows? Maybe we will meet there. Take care of yourself. MOQers are everywhere. Marco. -- Original message Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:15:29 +0100 From: Struan Hellier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MD A qual

MD Intellect

2000-05-29 Thread Marco
ning, knowledge, enlightenment... ) is seen as the prize for an activity in which a new kind of static patterns is coded through a new kind of machine code. But all this can't be described with language, as intellect will eventually be blind to all this. tks for your attention Marco. MOQ.

Re: MD Quality and Morality

2000-05-18 Thread Marco
is a journey, quality is what happens; morality is the right direction. Any thoughts? Marco. -Messaggio Originale- Da: Horse [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: mercoledì 17 maggio 2000 1.49 Oggetto: MD Quality and Morality Hi Jon and MD On 14 May 2000, at 17:13,

Re: MD Not Struan's and not a Syllogism

2000-05-01 Thread Marco
ast quality event preconditioned the existence of current universe (matter and mind comprised). The conclusion is that not only the quality event is a third entity not explained by the existence of mind and/or matter (ZAMM), but, at the contrary, the existence of mind and matter is explained

Re: MD The Definition of Insanity

2000-04-29 Thread Marco
David, Marco wrote: "Being different isn't bad or wrong, as long as it doesn't damage someone else's right to be different" David: H...interesting twist. How about "Being different isn't bad or wrong, as long as it doesn't damage someone else's right to continue being

Re: MD The Definition of Insanity

2000-04-27 Thread Marco
lse's car, that could be really insane. The topic was about a definition of insanity, and this is my (obvious, I guess) definition. What's important IMHO in Pirsig's thought is that "insanity" can be a richness. So we must make all what's possible to understand and listen to who's "insane&q

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