Hi Joe 17 Oct. you spoke:
> IMO You do not explore fully Pirsig s explanation of evolution. He > discusses the dynamic breakthrough from inorganic to organic. Within > the organic he mentions a dynamic breakthrough between one cell > reproduction and reproduction by a cell wall being penetrated by > another cell. You raise the most intriguing issues ;-(). I don't feel comfortably with ascribing the evolution within the static levels to DQ. A metaphor: Water waves are water too, but it's their wave quality (their NOT being water) we mean by calling them waves. Likewise it's the static patterns' STABILITY that characterizes them. The dynamic jump is between the levels, unless this is observed each and every biological "breakthrough" becomes a mini-level inside biology with the inter-levels moral struggle and no such exists within biology. Course dog eats dog and such but that's not what the MOQ speaks about. This your idea would make it completely unwieldy. > He can not put any limit on a dq/sq development from the > dynamic side. He puts no limit on the destruction of a level, some > have come and some have gone. His statement of an intellectual pattern > that "improves" upon the MOQ is consistent with undefined dq. I know that Pirsig speaks of a dynamism within level, but IMO he (as said) complicates the MOQ unduly here. F. ex. the DQ jump between the inorganic level and the biological laid down the premises for the following evolution, the mammal organism is potentially in the bacterium - that way Darwin's theory works - what the MOQ adds is an explanation for the start of life which is plain impossible inside the SOM. Destruction of levels!? What levels have come and gone? You mean patterns? And "improvements upon the MOQ"? If you mean things like we discuss, that this or that statement may be wrong and/or the levels may be understood differently, I agree, but anything that says that the metaphysical layout is different from the DQ/SQ will annihilate the MOQ and if so - as said - "intellect" is no longer a static value level but good old mind. > He is not clear on the dynamic point at which the social level evolves > to the intellectual level. IMO that point is the start of a new branch > of evolution the evolution of consciousness. He was wonderfully clear in ZAMM about the emergence of SOM and it's clear from much of LILA that intellect=S/O (minus 'M') but then somehow this sounded too radical and he made intellect into something that no-one understands - or worse - interprets as "thinking" or "consciousness" or "mind" and has caused all this confusion. The humans of old (the social era) were exactly the same as today, their consciousness just as acute, but only conscious of social values and not of intellectual (S/O) values. As I have said a million times it's possible to make different metaphysics built on other grand concepts (those that don't fit the S/O matrix) and a metaphysics of consciousness MOC is feasible: DC/SC, static inorganic consciousness, biological consciousness ...etc. But Value is most valuable ;-) > In consciousness two are > recognized. The relationship between them is seen as law e.g. the law > of gravity. The law of gravity belongs in the intellectual level not > the social level of consciousness. Here you ARE inside a MOC speaking about intellectual - and social levels of consciousness, but it adds nothing to the MOQ The law of gravity definitely belongs at the intellectual level, yet apples fell - still falls - at the inorganic level. > Enlightenment is a further dynamic breakthrough into a higher social > level, and a higher intellectual level well within the parameters of > MOQ DQ/SQ evolution. Enlightenment a higher social level. Joe you say the most strange things. It was a milepost in intellects march to power from its Medieval hibernation, the DYNAMIC breakthrough were the Greek thinkers' tearing existence lose from the social - mythological - explanation of reality. There may have been other philosophers than our books list, the known ones operated between 400-250 BC approx and at that time the mythological/social grip had long since loosened its hold, but never mind. A new intellectual level? You mean a new intellectual pattern? Sure, but I can't for the life of me see one that breaks with intellect's S/O master-pattern and still be intellect. The MOQ did just that and thus was forced to "leave home" to form a new metaphysics wherein its old home SOM became a sub-set of its own. Future radical new patterns will be Q-patterns and they can by definition not contradict the MOQ. Nice talking to you Joe, you at least talk MOQ. Bo Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
