Hi Bo, Platt, Mel,
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Platt Holden wrote:
[Bo]
Animals awareness (biological value perception) are by senses, hope
we agree about that? Also that sleep isn't present at the lower end of
the bio. scale, it has something to do with more complex neural
systems. Regarding "dynamic" in the static range I am skeptical
An animals awareness can be compared to an infants awareness:
Lila: "One can imagine how an infant in the womb acquires awareness of
simple distinctions
such as pressure and sound, and then at birth acquires more complex
ones of light and
warmth and hunger. We know these distinctions are pressure and sound
and light and
warmth and hunger and so on but the baby doesn't."
Steve: In other words, for the baby, hunger and sounds and light are
not static patterns, yet.
They are still undifferentiated experience.
Lila: "We could call them stimuli but the baby doesn't identify them as
that. From the baby's point of view, something, he knows not what,
compels attention. This generalized "something," Whitehead's "dim
apprehension," is Dynamic Quality.
Steve: If we can imagine that from the baby's perspective this is
dynamic quality, then from an animal's perspective we can also imagine
what dynamic quality is like. But remember as I cautioned recently in a
post to Arlo, we are no longer in the perspective of radical empiricism
when we imagine what the perspectives of others must be like--whether
other humans, or rocks and trees.
Regards,
Steve
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