[Bo] I'm not really interested in learning how many boxes within boxes SOM produces. The thing is that the S/O (mind/matter) divide is immensely valuable and have brought us modernity. The fact that it is untenable philosophically is what the Quality Metaphysics sets right by relegating it the role of its highest static level while postulating that existence's real divide is the Dynamic/Static one. Get it?
[Krimel] I get it but I am pretty sure you do not. The problem with the mind body issue is the notion that reality is fundamentally dualistic. If so how does one of these aspects relate to the other? If on the other hand we regard "mind" as an emergent property of matter the problem goes away. Within the MoQ this is what the levels reveal, biology emerging from the inorganic and so forth. The MoQ shows how this can happen as stability arises and is sustained in the face of change. [Bo] Ok, ok, my library is also full of books on the many twists to the S/O divide (as philosophically absolute) can be done before breakfast. Yet no-one can deny the immense progress it has brought to mankind. All cultures who (in moq-speak) refuses to enter the 4th. level stagnate it seems. [Krimel] The point is that the perception of ourselves and others as subjects and objects is a biological predisposition of our species. Tomasello is a developmental and comparative psychologist not a philosopher his observations are based on studies of infants and nonhuman primates. 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/
