Quoting Krimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > DQ is a moral force, NOT mathematical variables and operations. You should > know this. > > "Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of realty, the source > of all things, completely simple and always new. It was the moral force that > > had motivated the brujo in Zuni. It contains no pattern of fixed rewards and > > punishments. Its only perceived good is freedom and its only perceived evil > is static quality itself-any pattern of one-sided fixed values that tries to > > contain and kill the ongoing free force of life." (Lila, 9) > > When science identifies a moral source, do let us know. > > [Krimel] > My personal view is that this is another example of Pirsig's unfortunate > choice of terms. He claims that a rock falling to the ground is a matter of > preference and values and that using such sloppy terms doesn't change the > meaning. But it does. It allows you to run around yacking about the lack of > moral codes in science when Pirsig has just said physics IS a moral code. > Math, biology, geology the whole lot ARE moral codes in the MoQ. > > In this particular context it is your impoverished notions of morality that > the MoQ rejects not science.
You speak solely of static moral codes of the inorganic and biological levels, a narrow, "impoverished" view of the MOQ. As for Dynamic Quality, "moral force," you and science have nothing to say except to deny its existence. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
