gav, This is a very thoughtful analysis.
My only comment is that the word choice of 'aesthetic' is almost right. I don't know what the right word is, but it's something else. thanks--mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "gav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [MD] Emotions' place? and why thinking is not SOM > sq is any pattern abstracted from the flow of experience (dq) > <snip> > the nature of dq - the cutting edge, is aesthetic, not emotional. there is a difference. emotions are motivating forces felt within the body and reinforced/refined by the mind. they are a psycho-somatic response to the initial *aesthetic* experience - which in other words is the experience of quality - ineffable, beyond def (once you try you lose it). > > dq - unified immediate experience: aesthetic stimulus that gets the emotional rollercoaster rockin. the stimulus is not the emotion. > > and remember all this is clever word stuff. really there is no dq and sq, just Q - even the dq/sq split is an essentially imaginary first cut. just more fundamental than the secondary cut of the static levels <snip of lots of other good stuff, too> 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/
