Hello Squonk, Thinking about this last night, as I was waiting for my physical therapist, I remembered something that the mystics of India called large mind. The concept involved is that you develop the freedom to switch between perceptions of experience, balance them and master them to a degree. What this boils down to in regard to the thought experiment is I think by pursing DQ in the manner you proposed is giving up a certain amount of personal freedom and I feel that is counterintuitive to the aim of the project. that's about my only qualm with it, that and it seems it would, in reality be a long way round a problem that can be solved a lot more economically.
Free agency seems to be the larger issue. To be like an infant is a metaphor for being open to change and acceptance. It is an approach to experience not so much a perfect state of existence. The goal of the mystic is to reach a developed sense of being to be able to be mired in static patterns and only see the dynamic quality of them. The aim is not to avoid or shut out the static, forever will you chase that concept, it is fueled by desire to know, which is unquenchable. The enlightened mind sees that even the most static pattern is all dynamic. it's the journey that develops the comprehension, I personally would rather comprehend than merely be, I think this is one of the defining characteristics which distinguishes humans from animals. Take away the ability to comprehend and you take away that which makes us human. -Ron -Ron 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/
