On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:02 AM, MarshaV wrote:

> 
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Magnus Berg wrote:
> 
>> On 2010-07-19 11:17, MarshaV wrote:
>>> Sight at its very least is not about identified objects, only form and
>>> color.  But one can experience sight sans even form and color too.
>>> It is ALL conceived.  It's useful and I wouldn't throw away any but the
>>> arrogance of thinking the "real" has been realized.
>> 
>> Arrogance is there in SOM, yes, because in SOM, there's no other 
>> relationship between the perceived object in your head and the object 
>> observed.
>> 
>> But in MoQ, we know that there *is* a direct dependency from our internal 
>> image of the object, to the reality of the object via the levels. I'm not 
>> saying that your brain is supported by *that* stone, but I'm saying that 
>> your brain is supported by inorganic patterns just *like* a stone.
>> 
>> So, in SOM, ALL is conceived. But in MoQ, where we have the level dependency 
>> and know that our internal "minds" are supported by inorganic patterns, we 
>> can know that there are inorganic patterns. From there, I don't think it's 
>> arrogant anymore to give the stone a status of real.
>> 
>>      Magnus
> 
> Hello again,
> 
> First, thank you for the seriousness of this exchange.
> 
> For me the MoQ is Quality(unpatterned experience/patterned experience), all 
> else is speculation.  What you "know" is bits and pieces of ever-changing, 
> interrelated, impermanent pattern, and I think it arrogant to call that real. 
>  Call it the most useful and best workable hypothesis available at the 
> moment, but not real.  
> 
> 
> 
> Marsha
> 


Magnus,

I am of the mind that all patterns have a relationship with thinking and that 
is the cause of the 
self/object split.  But in the fourth level it has become formalized and can do 
the most damage 
by its emphasis an objective, thing-in-itself world and "real" knowledge.


Marsha
 
 
 

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