Tim, I appreciate your honesty.
I think you're on the way to get it. Here's some more help on the way,
please read it slow and loud:
About Polanyi, The philosopher Immanuel Kant put the same question when
he dicussed the table he was standing at. There were no way to find out
anything about the table as such "Das Ding an sich" as all we know is
just about our own sensations from it.
But mr Kant could have used the same method as René Descartes. René
questioned his own questioning and found that it was impossible and by
that way he could say that "I think, therefore I am" (it was obvious
that there must *be* a thinking to think about if there was thinking or
not.) He put his thinking upon his thinking.
Now back to the table (instead of your chair). What if we put another
table upon the first table? If it is possible to put another table upon
the first table we can find that this Relation between the tables
positively exist. There is a relation that is unbiased from our personal
angle. We put a table upon the first and we can let them change place
and change the position. We can by that say that the thing on the table,
"Das Ding an Tisch" is the evidence for that there is knowledge outside
our own perception.
This is also the base for Positivism as all that can be measured, e g
compared to something else, is real.
Now about the 4 levels vs the three dichotomies:
First I would like to point at the dichotomy in ZMM, the
romantic-classic. If we consider peoples way of clothing, some people
are always following the trend of fashion. Never wearing something
outdated and always with their reputation in mind. These are the
romantic people while the people in tie and suits (which is an old horse
riding dress from the 19th century), the people in suit and tie are
representing the perennial values and natural laws that are always the
same, these are the classic people.
Now imagine a vawe at the bay coming in from the sea. It is moving in a
direction towards you and the vawe stretch out in about 90° angle from
its direction. In the same way the romantic is oriented to the classic.
The romantic are in the actual vawe and the classic are the movement
following the direction of it unbiased from the momentual position of
the vawe.
For a refresh of RMP's definition see ch. 11-12 in Lila. As you can see
in his writing about the 4 levels there is a clear timeline in it. It
starts somewhere just after big bang, where most of the atoms and
particles got their constitution or pattern and then the biological and
the social patterns have evolved as a result of the dynamic quality.
Today we can see the intellectual level rise (since about ancient greece
or something) and how the conflict between victorian decency and
intellectual frenecy spread even into MD.
We have to deal with an evolution that, like a vawe from the beginning
to the future, is both romantic and classic. The classic is what we see
as following perennial laws of function and logic while the romantic has
to consider what's really going on and true at the moment. The actual
state now is just between the past and the future and is by this forum
called The Quality. Our perceptions is always a short moment after as it
takes some time to get what it is.
In the same manner as romantic and classic is oriented 90° to each
other, energy, pattern and value is oriented to each other making a
3D-vawe, an x,y,z.t-system glome or just a bubble of time. Out from
origo is the three dichotomies oriented and thus making up the classic
in three dimensions with the actual now as the vawe where the romantic
covers the whole ball of fashion. The 4 levels can be found as shells
inside the hypersphere as we know that all evolution takes energy and
has its patterns and value for other events.
This is the nature of the reality and the quality. RMP stated that
Quality couldn't be defined but we know that it IS, CHANGES and has
VALUE. Anything there is, have some energy, pattern and value. Every
event and process can be dividied into smaller pieces with its energy,
pattern and value and can also be joined togheter with other in bigger
and more complex processes. The actual state of any process emanating as
a sphere of time out from its beginning. Like a sound vawe from a
raindrop that hits a leave in the forest. All events together as the
white noise from rain.
The inorganic found their pattern inside the periodic system of balanced
states as "tones of energy" following the script of "the big note". The
organic finds it's patterns by mutations and masscopying preparing for
the next step to survive. The social level finds its patterns by
interacting, art and by collecting time. The intellectual level finds it
patterns by thinking and using internet.
We as humans can choose to be passive or active. We can make pictures of
events and processes not only how they look but also how the move and
evolve. We can make tools to Change a process to benefit from it. The
unconscious processes like organics and animals change themselves by
mutations and luck but we can make concepts by our experiences and
choose strategy, e. g. smile in public to cover a secret social
strategy. Reasonability is a strategy you can choose. We act in time. We
measure, abstract and valuate. We add, subtract, analyze and calculate
and react on the surrounding to rise our own quality. We don't have to
wait for a mutated person to do it. We are also conscious about that we
are conscious and are able to change our own consciousness to get more
out of the situation.
As long as any process is well balanced by its energy, pattern and value
it will continue. When the division between the Dynamic quality (how it
really is) and the Static quality (how it should be) is 1 then the
Quality is best (Nirvana). But any difference from 1 in any of the three
will produce a force and a counterforce. When it is under 0,5 the the
forces aiming to 0 will take over and the event will cease to exist.
Too fat, too weird or too boring will kill any one. Any enterprise with
a balance by its liquidity, its cash-flow and its marketing account will
survive. Any nation with a social economy, a fair justice and cultural
freedom will perish. Liberté, égalité, fraternité (cultural freedom,
juridical equality and brothership in economy).
Any philosophy that has followers and a manual that can be used by any
waitress or motorcycle mechanic will outlive every religion.
Jan-Anders
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