Marsha
An 'open' reality I would add.
DM
Ham,
The MOQ starts with experience. Experience is reality.
Marsha
At 12:45 PM 9/24/2008, you wrote:
To all MoQers --
We each have our own view of reality, and you folks diligently strive to
fit it to Pirsig's hierarchy of levels and patterns. Unfortunately, in
making this accommodation, we all get bogged down in sophisticated terms
and paradigms that not only attempt to do Pirsig "one better" but are
incomprehensible to the average participant. (I plead guilty to the same
mistake.)
Noting the confusion, a few of us have moved toward presenting our ideas
with the fundamentals in mind. Recently I've been trying to to this with
Bo, Marsha, Ron, Joe. and some others here, with some productive results.
The worst that can happen with this approach is that someone rejects the
fundamental principle out of hand, which aborts the discussion. When this
happens, I simply accept the inevitable and move on to the next person who
shows some willingness to explore an alternative view.
So, at the risk of being simplistic, I'd like to wind back the "levels
scheme" of reality and start afresh in the simplest and most universal
language. I suggest that you all consider existence as "Being-Aware".
You may disagree with this concept; but before you do, let me try to show
why it is as close to fundamental truth as any philosophical postulate.
First, being and becoming are defined by most dictionaries as "the state
or quality of having or coming into existence." That makes it fundamental
by definition. We can't have existence without being, and we can't exist
without becoming. Does anyone here deny this fact?
Secondly, at least from the individual perspective, it is inconceivable
that you can know that anything exists without having an awareness of it.
"Awareness" is defined as the realization, perception, or apprehension of
what we know. Since we know that being exists only because we are aware
of it, each cognizant individual is fundamentally a being-aware. Or, to
put it another way, being in existence takes the form of a sensible
(cognizant, knowing) agent or entity who becomes aware of being, the locus
of which is his/her self and its knowledge of a diversity of other beings.
Finally, whether your personal philosophy accepts the "metaphysical
reality" of this dualism or not, existence consists of at least one
cognizant subject (self) aware of an objective otherness (being). However
we may hypothesize Reality, and whatever we think may have occurred
before (or after) awareness, fundamentally Existence = Being-Aware.
Now, because it establishes a fundamental precept, I would appreciate your
comments and/or objections to this analysis. It seems to me that if we
can accept Being-Aware as an irrefutable principle of existence, we will
have a universal platform on which to construct a metaphysical theory of
ultimate reality, whether it is essentialism, existentialism, nihilism,
idealism, or qualityism.
Respectfully yours,
Ham
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