Arlo, DM, I feel I should introduce some Anthropic Principles into this .... but nah !
Ian On 5/14/08, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [DM] > But is not all activity-experience value based and therefore active quality > seeking rather than simply chance for Pirsig? > > [Arlo] > I was really talking about the overarching teleology and not that the > immediate > activity of any individual is not value-oriented. Of course it is. My point is > that inorganic patterns did not "decide" to create biological cells. Nor was > the appearance of biological cells the result of some "divine plan" or willful > volition of an "intelligent designer". > > To use Pirsig's example, the first subatomic joining to create Carbon was not > planned, ordered or destined. Nor was it the willful act of inorganic patterns > to "create something better able to respond to DQ". It was a "chance" merging > from which followed a resounding "AHA!" (to use a metaphor). > > In short, patterns are after-the-fact remains of high quality chance events. > This is why I say that "Quality" was perfectly happy for millions of years of > dino rule. The asteroid (to use a simplistic descriptor) that wiped them out > was not "planned to make way for homo sapiens". There was no divine plan to > turn dinos into oil for the eventual creation of Man, Glorious Man. > > > > > 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/ > 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/
