Hi DM
Quality is a monism - the MoQ divides this into Static and Dynamic
Quality (SQ & DQ).
DQ is unpatterned.
SQ is patterned.
Flavours are SQ, as are bananas and oranges - they are concepts. We
relate these concepts to learned patterns (SQ).
Animals (the vast majority) do not know flavours, bananas or oranges as
concepts - their experience of reality (DQ) is through biological
patterns (SQ) and sometimes memory (SQ).
Animals do not have a concept of food.
If an animal cannot identify its food biologically it will starve.
Example: a cat with cat flu cannot smell that what is in it's bowl is
food so it doesn't eat it. Flu doesn't kill the cat, lack of the ability
to smell and starvation kills the cat!
For animals there are very few 'rules':
1) if it isn't a threat don't run away, if it is a threat run away.
2) if you can't mate with it or eat it and it isn't a threat ignore it
A very simplified view but essentially correct.
Recognising differences is a comparison of static patterns - this is
post, not pre, experience (DQ).
Pre-conceptual patterns do not exist in the MoQ.
There is no problem with this in the MoQ - only in your belief that
patterns exist prior 'concepts'.
Most animals have no concepts, as we understand them, they react to DQ
(experience) biologically, not socially or intellectually.
Liking and disliking 'bananas' or 'oranges' is SQ.
Scientific theories are SQ and empirical evidence to support or disprove
a theory is SQ.
Experiences that are shared are SQ not DQ or pre-conceptual concepts.
Horse
On 13/10/2013 00:13, David Morey wrote:
Hi Horse
I pretty much agree with all that, but should not DQ and SQ be a way to
understand the whole of experience? Otherwise the MOQ is missing part of
experience, so I suspect the way DQ and SQ are being defined has become too
rigid and inflexible. What I want to know is where we put for example flavours
we experience, oranges and bananas taste differently, here is difference,
but the qualities of taste do not need concepts, so we have these patterns
that are not due to concepts, seems to me the definitions of MOQ should cover
these, they are pre-conceptual patterns, they have an identity without
concepts, do we need to recognise such differences in DQ or recognise them as
pre-conceptual SQ, happy with either, uncomfortable that they seem to be
excluded from both SQ and DQ due to too rigid definition. Can we fix these
definitions? Yes pre-conceptual patterns are not in the current MOQ, but they
are in experience, underlying culture and concepts, they are in experience,
if the MOQ ignores them does it not need fixing? For me such patterns are
covered by the idea if SQ, the error is to limit SQ to concepts, experience
is richer than this limit suggests, MOQ should not overcome the aporias of SOM
simply to create new ones. I am very happy to have unpatterned DQ and patterned
SQ if the attachment of conceptual to SQ is dropped, thus looks like a bad move
to me, it solves some problems but creates the new ones I am pointing out. You
may think my solution is worse than the problems it is solving, but I think
the problems should be clear to everyone, no one has offered a better solution
so far I believe. But interpretation all the way down looks suspect to me, we
may bring something to the banana, our likes and dislikes, but the banana has
something apples do not, their own uniqueness that we experience, their
difference from all other fruit tastes. And in science to there is difference,
theory is powerful but in the end the evidence decides, what does empirical
experienced evidence give us? Is it not something primary and below theory?
Experiences have this capacity to be shared, these commonalities, these
patterns are the touch points on which conceptual SQ is built. These things
matter to politics:
http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com
Regards
David M
Horse <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi DM
SQ is a concept relating to patterns. It is a human metaphysical concept.
What we're talking about, w.r.t. Pirsig's MoQ, is static patterns of
value and dynamic quality.
Animals, the vast majority anyway, are biological and inorganic
patterns. Instinct is biological.
The vast majority of animals don't, as far as anyone can say with any
certainty, have concepts.
They can recognise shapes (another fascinating facet of the eye - edge
and shape detection) but do not have a concept of shape - because they
have no concepts!
They use other biological values to navigate and get around in the world.
Some animals may have social values or patterns - certain types of
hymenoptera and cetaceans come to mind, along with higher primates. Some
of the higher primates (and possibly cetaceans ) may even have concepts
but this can only be inferred and, so far as I'm aware, has not been
conclusively proven.
What I don't get is why you are trying to impose an idea onto the MoQ
that has been shown not to be part of the MoQ.
There are static patterns of value and dynamic quality - that's it.
Nothing else.
DQ is unpatterned.
SQ is patterned.
There is no such thing, in Robert Pirsig's MoQ, as patterned DQ. It
doesn't exist.
What you are suggesting is not Pirsig's MoQ.
Horse
On 12/10/2013 16:13, David Morey wrote:
Maybe you can help explain it then, do animals with instinctive behaviors
identify their food and mates using SQ? Yes or no.
Is this SQ conceptual? Yes or no.
Either SQ can be pre-conceptual, which I prefer, but everything
pre-conceptual is DQ for DMB, or animals use concepts, which is a very odd
use of the word concept. If you can clear up this obvious muddle I will be most
grateful.
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