The following is a drawing of yet another constellation. It is said that art precedes knowledge since it is closer to the fundamental source, DQ. This could be considered as a quality statement since much of art results not from knowledge, but from an intimate awareness of a guiding path (“following DQ”). Subsequent to this awareness arises the formal presentation of words and concepts as placeholders. Once established, the individual is then able to move forward by resourcing the underlying dynamic nature of existence, and stepping off such placeholder steps onto the next as it is created. This would be analogous to stepping stones appearing in a pond, before one, as one crosses the pond. These are self created stepping stones and are in essence projection resulting from incoming experience.
With this in mind, once such placeholder can be presented in the form of a triangulation. Just as a platform requires three legs in order to stand, a conceptual platform is stable with three underlying principles (as is commonly used in many forms of metaphysics). Often such platform is based on two "static concepts" and their interaction. One example would be the Taoist presentation of the Yin, the Yang, and Chi. The Yin and Yang alone cannot provide a platform on their own since they would just sit idly by. Therefore a metaphysical completion of the analogy requires their interaction. Chi (Qi) is often translated as “life force”, but it extends beyond the biological form of life and is more of an “essential force” which describes the dynamic interaction of the Yin and the Yang. In the past I have suggested an addition in Quality display using three principles in MoQ. These would be SQ, DQ, and some manner of presenting the interaction (or inter-conversion) of the two. At one point I suggested the term Interactive Quality (IQ), but this was also done “tongue-in-cheek” to reveal the intellectual nature of such an illumination. In this post, I present a triad in which the “substance” nature of the legs (concepts) is slightly different. Existence within reality is metaphysically cut (with the “knife”) into “Identity”, “Movement”, and “Communication”. These three parameters are then used to provide explanatory power to Quality. Leaving the DQ/sq split aside for the time being, we divide metaphysical reality into these three supporting legs, and then circle back. (a) We have Identity, which is most easily understood as “personal identity”. This would be that which makes each one of us different from others. >From this perspective we can then ascribe Identity to all the things we choose to name or compose. (b) We have Movement, which is presented as change, kinetic forces, or even “time”. Without Movement, existence would be completely static and therefore “non-existent”. (c) Finally, we need an interactive component, which I have termed Communication. This word is used to enable understanding within the conceptual framework of our current climate of rapid dialogue within the “Noosphere”, which is enabled by the Internet. However, such Communication is as simple as a ball bouncing off a wall, or the adsorption of the energy of a photon by a plant. Words and concepts, as the dreams of this post are composed of, is also Communication. Communication is the transfer of identity from one “thing” to another. Back to MoQ then: Static Quality can be analogized to the tool with which communication is made possible; Static Quality also provides a temporary placeholder for identity as it changes through time. Dynamic Quality is composed of movement through which communication between identities can be accomplished. Movement acts on Static Quality to create existence through identity awareness. Communication is the means by which sq and DQ coexist. These three building blocks are most easily interpreted as independent. Although it can be said that communication is created by the individual, it also exists independent of the individual so that it can be used to transfer identity. While an individual “moves”, such movement is most easily understood as a substance distinct from the individual. In conclusion, as we attempt to provide placeholders, or stepping stones, which allow others to follow, (such that they can see the vista which is presented outside such stepping stones), we can diagram some useful concepts. With suitable concepts the traveler can create their own stepping stones as they step forward through the landscape of awareness. The presentation just given is not meant to be dogmatic, but simply an illustration of the usefulness of tools in the coloring of awareness. It is simply a presentation of “stars” which can then be conceived in a variety of constellations for the purposes of engendering meaning. Regards, Mark 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
