[dmb]
> In other words, how can you verbalize the pre-verbal
> without being verbal about it? Hildebrand puts it
> like this (the emphsis is his)...
> "Being itself a reflective (linguistic) act,
> description must color any pre-reflective subject
> matter it describes; since philosophy - pragmatism
> included - comments ONLY by means of reflective
> symbols it CANNOT illuminate this level of
> experience (if it can even be shown to exist).
> ...This accusation strikes at the core of Dewey's
> pragmatism and may be the most important issue to
> clarify and defend."
I also make the case that each static level is
embedded with dynamic quality, thus, each static level
goes through or is amidst an experience that is direct
and can't be "illuminate(d)" by "reflective symbols".
This is how dynamic quality or creative acts occur on
each static level. Each static level is not stuck
(can be, but doesn't have to be), and each level can
change or have changed/transformations within/embedded
each static pattern.
[Lila; ch. 9]
"Static quality patterns are dead when they are
exclusive, when they demand blind obedience and
suppress Dynamic change. But static patterns,
nevertheless, provide a necessary stabilizing force to
protect Dynamic progress from degeneration. Although
Dynamic Quality, the Quality of freedom, creates this
world in which we live, these patterns of static
quality, the quality of order, preserve our world.
Neither static nor Dynamic Quality can survive without
the other."
(I see "exclusive" as key here.)
[Lila; ch. 11]
"The explanation of life as a 'migration of
static patterns toward Dynamic Quality' not only
fitted the known facts of evolution, it allowed new
ways of interpreting them.
Biological evolution can be seen as a process by which
weak Dynamic forces at a subatomic level discover
stratagems for overcoming huge static inorganic forces
at a superatomic level. They do this by selecting
superatomic mechanisms in which a number of options
are so evenly balanced that a weak Dynamic force can
tip the balance one way or another."
(This shows dq working on the inorganic level.
Dq is present on this level. This comment by Pirsig
goes on to discuss the carbon atom.)
[Lila; ch. 11]
"What the Dynamic force had to invent in order to
move up the molecular level and stay there was a
carbon molecule that would preserve its limited
Dynamic freedom from inorganic laws and at the same
time resist deterioration back to simple compounds of
carbon again. A study of nature shows the Dynamic
force was not able to do this but got around the
problem by inventing two molecules: a static molecule
able to resist abrasion, heat, chemical attack and the
like; and a Dynamic one, able to preserve the
subatomic indeterminacy at a molecular level and 'try
everything' in the ways of chemical combination.
The static molecule, an enormous, chemically 'dead,'
plastic-like molecule called protein, surrounds the
Dynamic one and prevents attack by forces of light,
heat and other chemicals that would prey on its
sensitivity and destroy it. The Dynamic one, called
DNA, reciprocates by telling the static one what to
do, replacing the static one when it wears out,
replacing itself even when it hasn't worn out, and
changing its own nature to overcome adverse
conditions. These two kinds of molecules, working
together, are all there is in some viruses, which are
the simplest forms of life.
This division of all biological evolutionary patterns
into a Dynamic function and a static function
continues on up through higher levels of evolution."
(This shows dq working on the organic level.
Notice the last sentence which goes to the heart of
what I'm thinking about currently. The dq and sq
division works on each level.)
I bring this up due to not seeing this discussed
that much, maybe of recent only. Sometimes dq is
perceived as being a 'fifth' level'
(inorganic-organic-social-intellectual-dynamic) and
only working on intellectual patterns. This kind of
linear thinking or description hides the dynamics
between each level and within each level. But I see
dynamic quality working on each static level.
thanks.
night woods are cold,
SA
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