Hello everyone On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Joseph Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan and All, > > IMHO It is not useful to describe Dynamic Quality as the "source of all > things, completely simple and always new." DQ is a metaphysical term, > described as being indefinable experience.
Dan: Hi Joe! It is always a pleasure to hear from you... thank you for writing! Well, I am merely quoting the author of the MOQ here: "Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, the source of all things, completely simple and always new." [Lila] So if this isn't useful I am unsure what part of the MOQ is useful. This seems like the foundation of it all. I get the feeling a number of contributors here believe we all should just make it up as we go along. I cannot help but wonder: how useful is that? I am operating under the (perhaps mistaken) assumption that we are here to discuss Robert Pirsig's work and in particular the MOQ as described in Lila... are we not? > > The experience of emotions seems to be a proper analogy for DQ. I do not > see emotions as the "source of all things, completely simple and always > new." Intellectual activity seems to be a higher reality. Dan: I believe the MOQ classifies emotions as biological activity. So yes, you are right... emotions are not the source of all things. > > Emotions may have been present when the founding fathers created the > constitution, but intellectual activity describes the results. DQ emotions > are subject to intellectual activity as a lower level to a higher level as > the delegates are to the constitution. DQ emotions as perceptions evolve > into DQ/SQ intellectual conceptions. Evolution is alive and well. Dan: If emotions are the intelligence of biological responses then they are apart and separate from the intelligence of the mind. When I fall in love I am completely irrational. I walk around with a silly grin on my face for no reason at all. When I am close to her though my body responds in ways my mind cannot fathom. I revel in her scent, her touch, her taste; the sound of her voice is like music. So I know what love is but I cannot describe it any more than I can describe the taste of an apple. It is all very mysterious and yet so familiar. But I am not telling you anything that you do not already know... 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
