Mark raised the issue of the relationship of Static Quality to Dynamic
Quality and how DQ gets changed to SQ. The speculative image I have is of
static patterns coalescing within the flux of Dynamic Quality. I picture a
flow of molten lava and solid formations cooling and coalescing out of it as
it flows along. I picture the initial rush of energy immediately after the
Big Bang and subatomic particles and then atoms forming in it as regions of
it "cool".
In the same way, I picture Dynamic Quality in and through that
initial blast of absolute energy. Atoms coalesce within it and become
sufficiently stable to participate in chemical reactions and form molecules.
Through continued coalescence and aggregation stars, then planets and other
less energetic physical entities form. I understand these stable patterns
as "solidifying" out of the energetic flux of DQ. Then as soon as these
physical patterns have formed, DQ continues to drive them to higher levels
of organization and complexity. At each level static patterns coalesce out
of the dynamic flux.
One could also invert the image and view the initial quantum of
energy in the post-BB universe as a resistant medium which DQ drives toward
higher levels of DQ expression. The medium is resistant because it tends to
degenerate from higher levels of organization to lower levels of
organization, opposite to the direction of the flow of DQ.
The first achievement of DQ is the formation of the physical universe and
inorganic patterns. Then against the resistance of the inorganic patterns
DQ organizes the organic or biological level. I picture this as a "phase
change" of a material substance. If you think of matter as a block of ice
and DQ as a heat source, when you apply enough heat to the ice, it changes
from solid to liquid phase. If you continue, it changes phase from liquid
to vapor. Likewise, under the continuous pressure of DQ inorganic matter
changes phase to the biological level, which then changes phase to the
socio-intellectual level. At each level the Static Quality patterns are the
stable formations that persist in the resistant medium at that level of
organization. They are also the elements DQ organizes and energizes to
advance to the next phase.
If you view the relationship of DQ to SQ in this way, and if
you view cosmic evolution as the history of the advance of Dynamic Quality,
the levels of MOQ emerge naturally as sort of the critical points at which
phase changes have occurred. The only place where the levels don't seem
completely natural and obvious to me in this view is the social level and
then the intellectual level. To me the obvious phase change is from the
biological level to a "mental" level which subsumes both the social and the
intellectual levels of MOQ. Social evolution and intellectual evolution
both seem to me to be ways in which DQ continues to push forward and develop
stable patterns of SQ, with intellectual being the more promising and
fruitful avenue of advance.
Kind regards,
John L. McConnell
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