57. In the MOQ time is dependent on experience
independently of matter. Matter is a deduction from
experience.
Annotation 57 (Appendix)
RMP
In the MOQ time is dependent on experience independently of
matter. Matter is a deduction from experience.
DG:
Could you elaborate on what you mean by independently of
matter? I can see that time is dependent on experience but am having
a difficulty with the rest of your first sentence, especially in the
context of your second sentence.
RMP:
I think the trouble is with the word, experience. It can be used in
at least three ways. It can be used as a relationship between an object
and another object (as in Los Angeles experiencing earthquakes.) It is
more commonly used as a subject-object relationship. This
relationship is usually considered the basis of philosophic empiricism
and experimental scientific knowledge.
In a subject-object metaphysics, this experience is between a preexisting
object and subject, but in the MOQ, there is no pre-existing
subject or object. Experience and Dynamic Quality become
synonymous. Change is probably the first concept emerging from this
Dynamic experience. Time is a primitive intellectual index of this
change. Substance was postulated by Aristotle as that which does not
change. Scientific matter is derived from the concept of substance.
Subjects and objects are intellectual terms referring to matter and nonmatter.
So in the MOQ experience comes first, everything else comes
later. This is pure empiricism, as opposed to scientific empiricism,
which, with its pre-existing subjects and objects, is not really so pure.
I hope this explains what is said above, In the MOQ time is
dependent on experience independently of matter. Matter is a
deduction from experience.
DG:
Yes, this does help, thank you. What bothers me slightlyI am
sure I am not seeing it in the proper light yetis how experience can
be synonymous with Dynamic Quality? Isnt experience that which
we define?
RMP:
Dynamic Quality is defined constantly by everyone.
Consciousness can be described is a process of defining Dynamic
Quality. But once the definitions emerge, they are static patterns and
no longer apply to Dynamic Quality. So one can say correctly that
Dynamic Quality is both infinitely definable and undefinable because
definition never exhausts it.
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The self is a thought-flow of ever-changing,
interrelated and interconnected, inorganic,
biological, social and intellectual, static
patterns of value responding to Dynamic Quality.
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