Ham, Anthropomorphizing is a symptom of not knowing man is the measure of all things.
Micah P.S. Craig - I left the relevant parts for you to re-read. Hi Craig, and all -- Animism is apparently still alive and well in the MoQ community. At least the repeated assertion that "awareness" is a property of inanimate objects seems to indicate that this belief is prevalent. Just what is "an inorganic awareness"? I assume that all the participants on this forum have had a class to two in Physics or Biology. If so, (unless the "progressive movement" in education has abandoned scientific principles) you will not have been taught any such concept. In the absence of a brain and nervous system, there can be no cognition, feeling, or awareness. Rocks, trees and magnets simply are not equipped for psychic sensibility; they are not sentient organisms. There is no awareness at the "inorganic level". To perpetuate the myth that the "attractive" behavior of objects equates with subjective awareness is a regression to pre-enlightened times when it was thought that objects had souls. It's common to metaphorically associate the behavior of things observed in nature with human emotions, such as "feeling", "wanting", and "valuing". But a magnet isn't attracted to an iron bar because it is "aware of it", nor does a ball thrown into the air fall because it "values" the ground. When we succumb to a lteral interpretation of such expressions, we debase the value of subjective awareness. The persistence of this myth is particularly insulting to those of us who are advancing a philosophy based on proprietary value. Essentially yours, Ham > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
