I got ahead of myself a bit... I said: Hormonal changes (both men and women) (biology), influence the emotional and hence social dynamic...
but I think I don't want to really get into the 'emotional' component here... emotion is a 'tricky' thing to nail down (as seen in some recent posts) and it's not really important to my thoughts here. Rather than engage that part of the equation at this point, I'd rather just look at the chemical/biological and neurophysiological aspect behind how we 'react' to our environment...and behave socially as a result. --- we're finding out more every day - who would have ever thought that you could watch TV and see commercials advertising pharmaceutical products that caution that you can hallucinate and have unusual urges to gamble if you take the product? Where does Quality come into this? Except ONLY at the purely biological interaction between the drug and the receptors in the brain. Take this example... A man takes a drug to stop a physical condition of leg twitches at night, starts having compulsive desires to gamble (not being aware of the possible side effect (which we did NOT know on a lot of drugs 20 years ago), he spends all of his family's savings, starts fighting with his wife...leads to divorce, and then she starts a company that revolutionizes an industry OR she gets pregnant by a stranger, gets hooked on crack and abandons her kids and her kids grow up to live a life of crime... Do we call either social effect caused by the chain of events kicked off by the drug interaction 'dynamic Quality'; isn't 'dynamic' just the causal system? We know SO much more about brain chemistry now than we did when Pirsig wrote either book. ___ 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/md/archives.html 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/md/archives.html 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/md/archives.html
