Hey, Joe --
Pirsig certainly proposed an order in evolution. At the social level
he proposed a level which adds something to the capability of an
individual at an organic level without destroying the individual.
Evolution is addition, not subtraction or displacement. As addition
to [?] I accept the distinction between levels. You don¹t accept
evolution
yet a hummingbird reproduces as capably as a human. Evolution
describes some differences in capabilities better than mind/matter.
To work backwards through this paragraph, I'm not describing differences in
terms of "mind/matter". I'm saying that existence is differentiated because
we experience it that way. It's our fragmented glimpse of the Absolute
intellectualized as finitude. Difference starts with a single division: the
"splitting" of Sensibility from the whole of Otherness. Sensibility is not
"mind", it's the perception of value which defines the human psyche. Only
Essence senses Essence. Humans are not Essence but value-sensibility, and
it is our separation from Essence that differentiates our experience.
I accept evolution as an observed principle of nature (process in time)
which, in turn, is our intellectual construct of value. This is how we make
sense of experiential (organic) sensibility. A "level" doesn't add
sociability or intellect to an individual; the individual develops these
capabilities himself in his relations with an objectivized world. And the
neuro-physiological integration of sensory value is not an "added"
capability of the individual but a finite "reduction" of absolute
sensibility.
The Absolute is a metaphor. No one has experienced an absolute.
True. But, as value-sensible beings, we do experience finitude as a
construct of its value.
Only evolution explains change by addition not syllogisms.
Evolution is what we call process in time, especially when that process is
observed as a development toward an assumed end or goal, such as in the
evolution of the species.
For myself as a singer, I am familiar with an 8 level octave where 1 and 8
are doubled in intensity. I model evolution on an octave of seven
levels,
the last two being indefinable S only. I don¹t accept an "absolute" in
rational conversation. Lack of motion does not deny form. This forum has
no provision for discussing matters of faith like absolute.
As a music lover I can appreciate the value of tonality and the resonance of
the octave, although I believe
the doubling effect you speak of is a factor of frequency rather than
"intensity". There is no absolute in music or in the finite world. For
human beings, the absolute is an abstract concept. When conceptualized as
the metaphysical reality, it is no more a "matter of faith" than conceiving
Quality as reality or the universe as a moral system.
Thanks, Joe,
Essentially yours,
Ham
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