Hi Dan,
I tend to think of 'interplay' as an ever-changing, conditionally co-dependent, impermanent and conceptualized processing in the infinite field of Dynamic Quality. How does 'interplay' work for you. Marsha On May 18, 2012, at 2:14 AM, Dan Glover <daneglo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Carl Thames <ctha...@centurytel.net> wrote: >> I don't know how it came up, but recently I stumbled across what's known as >> "The Hard Question" about consciousness. Specifically, that question is how >> consciousness arises from inorganic material. Our brains and bodies are >> made up of chemicals, etc. and yet from those inert chemicals we get >> consciousness, until we die, then we become inorangic material again as we >> break down through the process of decay. What would the MOQ have to say >> about that? Anybody know? > > Hey Carl > > According to the MOQ consciousness doesn't arise from inorganic > material... it arises from the Dynamic interplay of all four levels of > evolutionary existence. Biological patterns of quality (like the > brain) arise from inorganic patterns. They share little other than an > evolutionary history... in fact, biological patterns can be seen as at > odds with inorganic patterns, subsuming them for their own use. > > Social patterns of quality arise from biological patterns. These > patterns cannot be seen. Unlike inorganic and biological patterns, > social patterns of quality exist in the mind. Take the President of > the United States as an example: there is no way to examine President > Obama and determine that he is the President. The fact that he holds > office is a social pattern, one with which we are all familiar. But > there is nothing to his person that indicates he is any different than > any other man. > > Intellectual patterns of quality arise from social patterns. We are > all ensconced in the culture that we inhabit. That culture informs our > ideas of the world. Our response to Dynamic Quality is filtered > through our ideas, our perceptions of the world as we know it to be. > In the MOQ Dynamic Quality is seen as synonymous with experience. > > So in answer to your question, it seems clear that we do not become > inert chemicals when we die... we are inert chemicals to start with. > Consciousness does not magically imbibe those chemicals with life... > they are still inert chemicals being made use of by biological > patterns. > > Does this help answer your question? > > 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 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
