Hello everyone On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 12:56 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > Seems to me of the debate the lately is predicated on there being a > "Cartesian Me' to choose or have freedom. What does it mean for a 'useful > illusion' to possess such control over its experience? > > > "This Cartesian 'Me,' this autonomous little homunculus who sits behind our > eyeballs looking out through them in order to pass judgment on the affairs of > the world, is just completely ridiculous. This self-appointed little editor > of reality is just an impossible fiction that collapses the moment one > examines it. This Cartesian 'Me' is a software reality, not a hardware > reality. This body on the left and this body on the right are running > variations of the same program, the same 'Me,' which doesn't belong to either > of them. The 'Me's' are simply a program format. > > (LILA, Chapter 15)
Hi Marsha "In all sexual selection, Lila chooses, Dynamically, the individual she wants to project into the future. If he excites her sense of Quality she joins him to perpetuate him into another generation, and he lives on. But if he's unable to convince her of his Quality-if he's sick or deformed or unable to satisfy her in some way-she refuses to join him and his deformity is not carried on." [LILA} Dan comments: Here, RMP is saying that choosing is a Dynamic activity, one that cannot be defined in so many words. All sexual selection, or natural selection if you will, is determined by Lila and her Dynamic choice. Our bodies know this instinctively. Intellectually, "we" have only been around a short time compared to the cells that make up "our" bodies. Dan 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
