Hi Jan

I am asking how all this talk of concepts fits with how we understand 
experience as per the MOQ,  if you can help with this question I would be 
pleased to read what you can contribute,  not obvious at all what you claim 
below,  can you show it?

David M

Jan Anders Andersson <[email protected]> wrote:

>Don't be a fool DM. Obviously you're using an understanding of the word 
>"experience" that is different from what RMP is suggesting in Lila.
>
>Jan-Anders
>
>> 3 okt 2013 kl. 03:14 skrev David Morey <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> DMB
>> 
>> Concepts can agree to the pre-conceptual patterns/qualities we find in 
>> experience,  how can concepts agree to pure flux in experience, although 
>> maybe point or indicate iS the starting place of concepts rather than 
>> agreement. The concept horizon draws a line to mark out the sky from the 
>> ground,  clarifying and naming and identifying a pre-conceptual pattern in 
>> our experience of reality. If the concept blue does not pick out a 
>> pre-conceptual regularity/pattern of blueness,  why is everything not blue 
>> and why is there red? And next let us discuss how to suck eggs if you need 
>> to dude. You do make me laugh!
>> 
>> DM
>> 
>> david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Morey said to dmb:
>>> ...You say the concept agrees with experience, well yes, but it cannot 
>>> agree to a flux, so what do we say? We can say it agrees with the dynamic 
>>> patterns of our experience, placing patterns in DQ rather than in SQ.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> dmb says:
>>> You want to rearrange the MOQ into the shape of SOM because "the concept 
>>> agrees with experience," you say, "but it cannot agree to a flux". I think 
>>> this is what it all boils down to. 
>>> 
>>> Firstly, we are talking about DQ as an experiential flux, so saying "the 
>>> concept agrees with experience" is exactly the same as saying "the concept 
>>> agrees with the flux". You can't rightly accept one and deny the other.
>>> 
>>> That's the idea, though. Reality (DQ) is an experiential flux, a stream of 
>>> experience, a flow of perceptions, an undifferentiated aesthetic continuum, 
>>> the endless landscape of awareness, pure experience, immediate experience, 
>>> preconceptual experience, unpatterned Quality, the pre-intellectual cutting 
>>> edge of experience. All these terms mean the same thing and THAT is whats 
>>> is being conceptualized. This is the source and substance of all static 
>>> patterns. Every last bit of it. 
>>> 
>>> This is what all those quotes said, David. Your question was answered by 
>>> the evidence before you even asked it.  As I've tried to explain, your 
>>> objections to this "flux" don't seem at all legitimate because you're 
>>> demanding, basically, that we convert DQ into the pre-existing objective 
>>> reality of SOM. It's okay to raise objections, ask questions or otherwise 
>>> probe the meaning of this experiential flux - but converting it into its 
>>> enemy is an outrageously bad idea. That is nothing less that a rejection of 
>>> the MOQ, and for no good reason! 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> "Dynamic Quality is the term given by Pirsig to the CONTINUALLY CHANGING 
>>> FLUX of immediate reality while static quality refers to any concept 
>>> abstracted from this flux." (McWatt)
>>> 
>>> Again, "....static quality refers to any concept abstracted from this 
>>> flux." (McWatt)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Paul Williams, a Buddhist scholar quoted by McWatt, says the same thing.  
>>> 
>>> "...imagine all things, objects of experience and oneself, the one who is 
>>> experiencing, as just a flow of perceptions. We do not know that there is 
>>> something 'out there'."
>>> 
>>> AND
>>> 
>>> "...there is only an EVER-CHANGING FLOW of perceptions ...we construct 
>>> these perceptions into enduring subjects and objects confronting each 
>>> other."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Pirsig, in chapter 29 of Lila, says the same thing that Williams just said.
>>> 
>>> "Subjects and objects are ..concepts derived from something [James] 
>>> described as 'THE IMMEDIATE FLUX OF LIFE "   
>>> AND
>>> "In this basic FLUX OF EXPERIENCE, the distinctions of reflective 
>>> thought,..  have not yet emerged in the forms which we make them." (Pirsig 
>>> in Lila)
>>> 
>>> AND
>>> 
>>> "There must always be a discrepancy between concepts and reality, because 
>>> the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is DYNAMIC AND 
>>> FLOWING." (Pirsig in Lila)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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