Hey Ham, On 19 Aug 2009 at 1:58, Ham Priday wrote:
> One other minor adjustment is necessary to make that sentence conform to my > epistemology. Conscious awareness is a finite reduction or derivative of > what I call Sensibility. So, it isn't Consciousness that "goes all the way > down" (because only a creature can be conscious), but the Absolute > Sensibility of the primary source. The same is true with Value, which we > do not experience in its "pure" form but only as representative objects and > events. Yet, as value sensible agents, we are all aware of Value by our > emotional and intellectual response to it. > > This is why Platt prefers the term "aesthetic sensibility", because he is a > connoisseur of art and music. However, human sensibility encompasses not > just aesthetic appreciation but qualitative, quantitative, and moralistic > judgments about everthing we experience. It is the "experience generator", > and in that sense value-sensibility is, as Platt says, "the ground of being > and creator of the world." So, although Platt claims to exclude "Ham's > metaphysics", his valuistic view of consciousness actually supports it. Correction: Platt prefers "aesthetic sensibility" because he, while enjoying art and music, believes value experience goes much wider and deeper. I agree with Pirsig's "preintellectual awareness" explanation from ZAMM that DMB reproduced in his Aug. 19 post. It describes the source and creative role of aesthetic sensibility. I suggest you read and absorb it for a fuller understanding of the MOQ. As for my support of your metaphysics I will only agree to it when you change your Essence to Quality and reject the business about our being its "agents" so that your subject/object premise and philosophical Idealism can be maintained But, it's good to see you moving towards acknowledgment of quality reality. Warm regards, Platt 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/
