Hello everyone On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:33 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Dan, > > On Mar 10, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Dan Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:13 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Dan, >>> >>> I think it best to consider static patterns of value from two different >>> points-of-view. The first would be the nature of all patterns: >>> conditionally co-dependent, impermanent, ever-changing and conceptualized. >>> The process of conceptualization would pertain to all patterns >>> (ideas/language). >> >>Dan: >> Are you saying these patterns exist in and of themselves? > >Marsha: > Not al all, I am not saying that patterns exist in and of themselves. I was > suggesting that all patterns (inorganic, biological, social & intellectual) > have an interdependent relationship with the process of conceptualization.
Dan: Why isn't this a case of mistaking the finger for the moon at which it is pointing? > >Dan: >> If so, then >> I disagree. I think they are provisional... they work until something >> better comes along. Seeing static patterns of quality as ever-changing >> and impermanent seems to go against Robert Pirsig's notion that it is >> best to find a balance between Dynamic Quality and static quality. If >> static patterns are always changing, how could we hope to form static >> latches? Wouldn't any evolutionary advance necessarily fall back? >Marsha: > A river is ever-changing, but changes within a stable pattern. Skin is > ever-changing, but changes within a stable pattern. Static patterns of value > pragmatically tend to persist and change within a stable, predictable pattern. Dan: So the patterns are not 'ever-changing' so much as changing within the context of stability... or static patterns responding to Dynamic Quality... > > >>> Marsha: >>> The second point-of-view would be categorization by evolutionary function >>> into their four-level, hierarchical structure: inorganic, biological, >>> social and intellectual. Then intellectual static patterns of value are a >>> particular category of pattern that began to emerge with the ancient Greeks >>> and functions in a particular manner: mathematics, philosophy, science, >>> etc. >> >> Dan: >> Why not simply say intellectual patterns are ideas. It is a good idea >> to state inorganic patterns of quality come first. It is a better idea >> to say that Quality comes first. > >Marsha: > Because static quality represents all that can be conceptualized and > conceptualization includes thoughts and ideas. Static patterns of value from > all the levels are conceptually constructed. It is a better idea to say that > Quality comes first, but would Quality exist without the relationship with > the conceptualization process? Dan: The four levels represent an encyclopedia of reality... a way of ordering. They represent more than intellectual patterns of quality. Here, you seem to be saying intellectual quality is all there is, but this goes against the MOQ. Thank you, Dan http://www.danglover.com 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
