Hi Arlo
Thanks for clarification. I think saying 'chance' is not the best choice as
it may carry as much baggage as saying 'design'. I think dynamic and
emergent are better words for the variety and possibilities that are
available so
that patterns can evolve and change and become more complex. Does chance
imply that any possibility will do? Is it not important in the MOQ that
possible
patterns/forms/behaviours that are good, valuable, with quality, can prevail
over those
with less? Is the cosmos just a random walk for you if you only see
'chance'?
thanks
David M
[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.
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