Krimel, Just stumbled over this post, explains quite a bit about the difference in how we are understanding the meanings of terms like "meaning" I have inserted some comments below. -Ron
[Krimel] Thanks Ron, that is a bit more like the kind of feedback I had hoped for. I made a few comments about why questions in response to your other post but let me add a bit here. Who, what, where and when questions seek factual answers. Why question seek satisfactory answers. Satisfaction is irrational. It is a feel, whether good or bad. If one asks why did that child died of cancer? Factual answers about the dynamic qualities of cancers cells or talk of genetics and diet will provide no meaningful answer. We instead find satisfaction in divine assurance, visions of an afterlife, Kierkegaard's "infinite resignation", the elimination of desire. If one asks the why order emerges from Chaos what sort of answer would give satisfaction? Order is not other than chaos. To give an example from RadioLab. If you flip a coin 100 times and in the process produce a string of seven heads in a row that would seem really strange as though order had magically appeared. (As it turns out this isn't even unusual or unexpected.) But the order itself emerges in the eye of the flipper. As irrational creatures we seek satisfaction a feeling of rightness which we can justify through the feedback loops of the rational and irrational. The feeling of satisfaction is fundamentally irrational but we use reason to validate that feeling. The question of the good is impossible to neglect. It is felt, lived, embodied, irrational. Reason is a technique for classifying, evaluating, dissecting, restructuring, reproducing and communicating the irrational. But chaos and order are not inherently good or bad or anything at all. They are what we make of them in our living and in our meaning giving activities. Krimel 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
