"A conventional subject-object metaphysics uses the same four static patterns
as the MOW, dividing them into two groups of two: inorganic-biological patterns
called 'matter', and social-intellectual patterns called 'mind'. But this
division is the source of the problem. When a subject-object metaphysics
regards matter and mind as eternally separate and eternally unalike, it creates
a platypus bigger than the solar system." (Lila 153)
"Then, having made this arbitrary division based on 'substance', conventional
metaphysics then asks, 'What is the relationship between mind and matter,
between subjects and objects?' ... Our language is so organized around them
and they are so convenient to use it is impossible to get rid of them. There is
really no need to. Like 'substance' they can be used as long as it it remember
that they're terms for collections of patterns and not some independent primary
reality all their own." (Lila 154)
"In a value-centered MOQ the four set of static patterns are not isolated into
separate compartments of mind and matter. Matter is just a name for certain
inorganic value patterns. Biological patterns, social patterns, and
intellectual patterns are supported by this patterns of matter bvut are
independent of it. Thye have rules and lawws of their own that are not
deribbable from the frules or laws of substance." (Lila 154)
"The mind-matter paradoxes seem to exist because the connecting links between
these two levels of value patterns have been disregarded. Two terms are
missing; biology and society. Mental patterns do not originate our of inorganic
nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of biology which
originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what
a mind thinks is as dominated b y social patterns as social patterns are
dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection
between mind and matter. As the atomic physicist, Niels Bohr, said, 'We are
suspended in language'. Our intellectual description of nature is always
culturally derived." (Lila 155)
"This may sound as though a purpose of the MOQ is to trash all subject-object
thought but that not true. Unlike SOM the MOQ does not insist on a single
exclusive truth. If subjects and objects are held to be the ultimate reality
then were permitted only one construction of things - that which corresponds to
the 'objective' world - and all other constructions are unreal. But if Quality
or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it becomes possible for more
than one set of truths to exist. ...There are many sets of intellectual
reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than
others,.. ... Both are simply intellectual patterns for interpreting reality
and one can only say that in some circumstances rectangular coordinates provide
a better, simpler explanation." (Lila 100)
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