Re: [MD] The strong interpretation of the MOQ (SIM)

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Glendinning
patterns: Intellectual Static Patterns of Value are reified concepts and the rules for their rational analysis and manipulation. Ian - Yes, static / reified long enough for such manipulation and analysis to take place. Intellectual patterns create false boundaries, create a division between

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Glendinning
) but fear I will not have time the next day or two. Ian On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Ron, Ron said: I respect your call to inquiry. It brings up questions about the role of a community and the responsibilities connected

Re: [MD] Re Ian, artikel

2010-07-12 Thread Ian Glendinning
Adrie, The lack of evidence was not really a criticism, just an observation. A paper like this for lay understanding must almost always be rhetoric. (But I have researched these two guys web sites the last day or two - and asked a couple of physics friends - interesting.) Ian On Mon, Jul 12, 2010

Re: [MD] LC Comments

2010-07-11 Thread Ian Glendinning
a subject with an intentional stance to participate in the quality of these low-level object-to-object events. (Was not the magnet iron-filings example a little contrived, as parodied in Glenn's rotting apple ?) Just a thought. Ian (Oh, and PS when AI arrives it will be Real-I, not Artificial, so

Re: [MD] Levels in electronic computers

2010-07-11 Thread Ian
Good to have a new voice voicing these points Andy. In my words, when AI arrives it will be real, and it will have evolved through A-Life before it does. The patterns in the silicon processes will really be alive. This entirely predicted by the MoQ. Ian Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11

Re: [MD] Intellectual honesty

2010-07-11 Thread Ian
Still spot on Horse. Ian Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2010, at 20:38, Horse ho...@darkstar.uk.net wrote: Hi Steve, Dan, DMB, Ron, John, Matt, Platt and anyone else who's interested On 11/07/2010 02:25, Steven Peterson wrote: Steve: If those supporting Horse's action don't think Bo

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
Yes Matt, Horse is adding the force of moq.org officialness to the long-standing Bo/SOL/dishonesty situation we all recognized, including you. Done Ian On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: Apparently I'm not making _myself_ clear

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
Well said Dan. (All the generalizations about cults and censorship are dishonest muddyings of the waters.) Ian On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: [Matt] However, what is this line

Re: [MD] A larger system of understanding

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
the waters with straw-men and bogey-men to their own deliberate and politically motivated ends. Platt, please stand up. Firing squad, take aim. (Come the revolution.) Regards Ian On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11

Re: [MD] A larger system of understanding

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hehe, need a little light relief on a Friday. Will do Steve :-) Ian On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Platt Holden platthol...@gmail.com wrote: [Ian] Platt, please stand up. Firing squad, take aim. (Come

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
am to be accused of riding the high horse to point out that honesty is a good idea to defend, then so be it. Sorry Steve. Ian (PS Marsha is away on a vacation break I believe.) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org

[MD] Side Step

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
welcome, for ever), Bob does not endorse it, in fact he explicitly brands it low quality. To claim otherwise is a simple lie. Regards Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
there are practical/material/physical/electrical issues No you dummy - our bandwidth - the mental traffic, the goodwill, the conversation, the tolerance, the intellect, the % of mails on this subject in our inboxes. I repeat ... the message is give it a rest Bo. Kill this intellectual pattern as instructed. Ian

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
it was a release I've never looked back from. Ian On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: What was it like for you the first time?  I bought the first book thinking I was reading just

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
But ... as Bob continued ... It's just that I see a lowering of the quality of the MOQ itself if you follow this path ... On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Platt Holden platthol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All: As long as there's a suggestion to add selected quotes from Pirsig at the top of posts

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
We got there in the end Matt. Like you, I can switch off from Bo (or Platt) - so can anyone. This is Horse's thread, not Bo's. A decision as moderator to not simply ignore him, but exactly as per your own advice, to tell Bo to shut the fuck up. Ian On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Matt Kundert

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
Matt asked Why Bo is felt to be different in kind than other idiosyncratic posters ? Because of his claim is that his idiosyncratic idea is explicitly Pirsig's. Ian On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: We got there in the end Matt. Like you, I can

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
And Matt, Magnus answered your question explicitly You missed *the* crucial point Horse has tried to make twice now: Bo is telling people that the SOL is Pirsig's idea. Time to draw a line. Ian On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Matt asked Why Bo

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-07 Thread Ian Glendinning
!?!) It is a shame - as in shameful - that Horse is put through the mangle by all the butter-wouldn't-melt / holier-than-thou opinions on the subject. It's his job, he's doing it in practice, the theorists should butt out. Ian On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Dan Glover daneglo...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [MD] Decision

2010-07-07 Thread Ian Glendinning
even Ian can say that. Bo has had several metric tonnes of tolerance over the last 8 to 10 years. Horse was drawing a line. The only moral issue here is Bo's ignorance of the Bo SOL issue is clogging up the entire MD bandwidth. The issue that many of us do ignore him for long periods - until he

Re: [MD] Bo

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Glendinning
way he likes - and any new ideas or opinions of others. And as you say, doing so has created plenty of discussion on the intellectual level. You will not find anyone denying this What he can't do is pass it off as Pirsig's idea - simple really. Ian On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:27 AM, nom de plumeweb

Re: [MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Glendinning
of morality in the in the MoQ, despite that accepted view which he is entitled to do. What he is not entitled to do is to say it was Bob's idea that he do so and that Bob has agreed with him doing so. Ian On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Horse, [Horse

Re: [MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

2010-07-02 Thread Ian Glendinning
either .. He is just not entitled to say his idea is Pirsig's. Ian On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: Ian?  What the ? Mary ? What the ? You said I'm just concerned to hear that the accepted view is now that ZMM and Lila were not inspired by an aversion to SOM

Re: [MD] Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox Redeaux

2010-07-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
audience laughter. MoQ has a lot to offer this debate. These are dots I join up daily. Ian On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:22 AM, nom de plumeweb nomdeplume...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Many thanks for your polite and considerate responses.  In reading these initial comments it is gratifying to see

Re: [MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

2010-07-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
Sorry Bo, but if you don't see honesty as part of the etiquette being moderated then you are simply being dishonest again when you say point taken, and lo ... ... you continue to say your SOL interpretation is clearly written in ZMM for all to see. Point patently not taken Bo ? Ian On Thu, Jul

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-07-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
the enlightenment already done that - not exactly amoral, but above all other moral considerations. Whatever your commitment to the idea you cannot fail to see why every MoQist should reject it. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

2010-07-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
(that's you Platt, The Old Plant) is the one and only fool to which the rule is allowed not to apply, otherwise you'd be ahead of Bo in the queue. Hang on to the thorny crown, that's how we can tell it's you. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org

Re: [MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

2010-07-01 Thread Ian
Jo, I don't really get your points but my response inserted : Sent from my iPhone On Jul 1, 2010, at 22:44, Joseph Maurer jh...@comcast.net wrote: On 6/29/10 1:01 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ian and all, Iqn, imho your point misses the mark. You

Re: [MD] Objectivism Triumphant

2010-06-30 Thread Ian Glendinning
it right off (being careful not to break the switch) and go hitchhiking (or tripping, or beachcoming maybe). Ian On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:36 AM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Spoiler alert! Now for those of you who like to be surprised, I suggest you turn the page. Go watch a good

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-30 Thread Ian Glendinning
, Marsha SOLAQI treadmill. For anyone whose standard of expalantion is SOMist (objective, logical, reductive) I suspect SOL is a good explanation. For a MOQist, it's not. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-30 Thread Ian Glendinning
atoms (objects) I can conceive. Thirdly, I understand you've not got long off to the beach ? So I will assume for now, that your asking the question was simply a rhetorical response to Ron's question. Have a good break. Ian On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:00 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Ian

Re: [MD] In Defence of Bo

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
of the objects is a metaphysics, or in the whacko case tat Pirsig quotes, a problem because man and science are being treated like objects ... the very problem he was fixing by considering a better metaphysics. Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Platt Holden platthol...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
. He said Kill Intellect. He meant to say it, he knew what he meant when he said it, but anyone taking those two words at face value distorts what he actually had in mind - what he intended, preferred, valued, etc ... which a few people seem quite incapable of seeing. Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
Excellent Platt, EXCEPT, Mary's two points were about SOM, (explicitly stated SOM says ..), not about the intellectual level. The level of intentional dishonesty in the argumentation is embarrassing. Ian On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Platt Holden platthol...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28

Re: [MD] The Mythos-Logos issue.

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
or change the subject, and repeat your one true way claims. Dishonesty is exactly why we have a moderator. Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Horse ho...@darkstar.uk.net wrote: Hi Bo On 28/06/2010 09:19, skut...@online.no wrote: Horse, All. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
, not anything Mary had said. It should have been an anti-SOMist-intellectual point. If we want to prove that Bo's definition of intellect is SOM, then that's a given. If we want to debate whether it is a good definition for MoQ's 4th level ... then you answered the question already. Ian On Tue, Jun 29

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-29 Thread Ian Glendinning
Precisely John, So (in the other thread) concluding that a SOMist definition of intellect is immoral is one thing, but concluding that intellect IS therefore immoral is a logical misstep too far. Try MoQish intellect ... intellect with a good dose of morality, you know it makes sense. Ian

Re: [MD] DQ: to define or undefine

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
as any intellectual interpretation of experience permits. Saying SQ is simply more or less dynamic is true, as per Case's little ditties, but don't confuse that with DQ. Ian On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Krimel kri...@krimel.com wrote: [Ian] (I didn't need to re-order or re-interpret Dan's words

Re: [MD] St. Bodvar's perplexion

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
Mary MoQ and the Art ? Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: Pirsig said in The MoQ and Art: If you look at cultures outside of America, or if you look at cultures before Plato, you find there wasn't much reason in them.  They settled disputes by revenge

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
was rhetoric-free.) (I don't disagree with your interpretations ... I just want to clear some ground.) Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:01 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR ajb...@psu.edu wrote: [Marsha] RMP is vey, very clear where he writes: While sustaining biological and social patterns Kill all

Re: [MD] St. Bodvar's perplexion

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
it. Regards Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ian, To be complete, here's an expansion of that quote.  I wrote in one introduction to Coffee with Plato that we live inside the mind of Plato.  That Plato is the man who invented reason, almost, as we

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
, imagine he would. What people say, mean, do, mean to say, mean to do, say they mean or say they do are at least seven different things, before anyone brings imperfections like ignorance into it. Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:18 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR ajb...@psu.edu wrote: [Ian] Arlo, you

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
it. The quality of wisdom is not strain'd Ian 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

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
some purpose, that is. The rhetoric of just another and dump is for those whose point is simply looking for an argument. Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, platthol...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 Jun 2010 at 8:12, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: Why would you even need more? If that (the SOL

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
, by valuing our experience in breaking such patterns. Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR ajb...@psu.edu wrote: [Platt] What Pirsig said undermines the MOQ is suggesting it is just another product of S/O thinking -- which is exactly what those who dump the MOQ

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
frustration, me included. I assume your motive may be fun, but either way your wisdom is not in doubt - I repeat. ) Ian On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:15 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: Marsha, Andre asked What part of you wants evidence

Re: [MD] St. Bodvar's perplexion

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
years on. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:11 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: Ian said: All this quoting of Pirsig's rhetoric as part of arguments (other than arguments about what he said, clearly) is a really scary trend - he's not some authoritative guru on whose every word we hang

Re: [MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
Exactly Arlo, glad you emphasized it. Recursion is part of the real world, not a problem in need of an artificial solution. Ian PS - I wasn't being precious, disingenuous or plain smart-arsed, I just wanted to tease out one point to catch-up on an (old) argument I'd not been following closely

[MD] In Defence of Bo

2010-06-28 Thread Ian Glendinning
Horse to potentially undermine MoQ for unenlightened minds. This Trojan Horse, that logic undermines quality, I have called Catch-22, and I get called stupid for my efforts too ;-) Regards Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss

Re: [MD] DQ: to define or undefine

2010-06-24 Thread Ian Glendinning
and unions. DQ is ONLY the immediate undefinable quality. The lifetime of sq definitions is variable, but always relatively static for some period of time. DQ is undefined for any period of time ever. They are qualitatively different things.) Ian On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Krimel kri...@krimel.com

[MD] Barbara Herrnstein Smith

2010-06-24 Thread Ian Glendinning
Interesting ? http://www.psybertron.org/?p=3453 Name dropping some favorites ... James ... Gombrich ... Ian 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

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-23 Thread Ian Glendinning
Excellent Matt / Mary Another counter intuitive strange loop. Making humility explicit, devalues it. Making the good truly definitive makes it bad / less good. Love it. The time has come for meta-meta-physics, methinks. Ian On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict

Re: [MD] DQ: to define or undefine

2010-06-23 Thread Ian Glendinning
something is one thing. But Logical definition is another, different thing. A metaphysics and it's subject are different things.) Ian 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

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-20 Thread Ian Glendinning
- and therefore demand new rules in the way the game is refereed, etc metaphor for evolution in all forms of governance.) Example http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1757 Ian On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: Hey Ian, First joining up the comment of Krim's you

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-20 Thread Ian Glendinning
; objectives in the purposeful sense - technology doesn't help there, at least not directly, only with hindsight, etc.) Ian On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:24 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Ian, I'm interested in a new phenomena taking over games, wherein video replay shows the audience

Re: [MD] The Greeks?

2010-06-18 Thread Ian Glendinning
... initially, which I said I suspected was the case ... it didn't seem like you to make such a point.) Ian On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: Matt said: Spoken like someone that doesn't have to vote in the United States.  (Which is to say, think

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-18 Thread Ian Glendinning
, but strategically ... etc Or, the Bo-ists (who hold that the MoQ is above the intellectual analytic knife) need better strategies so that their wished-for interpretation of MoQ can be communicated to the here and now SOMists. Magic Ian On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict

Re: [MD] The Greeks?

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Glendinning
Matt said Spoken like someone that doesn't have to vote in the United States. (Which is to say, think strategically--i.e. rhetorically--in this political environment.) Ian says Spoken like a US citizen who thinks the US is somehow supremely different to everywhere else. You think the politics

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-17 Thread Ian Glendinning
. What is your strategy for providing MoQ with that authority, if not to engage in argument and real-world interaction with existing social and intellectual patterns ? Regards Ian On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Mary marysonth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Krimel Bo, Fascinating stuff.  What occurs

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Glendinning
. There are interpretations of the singularity that involve human-AI symbiosis, that seem much more credible to me. Uploading or otherwise. You seem to be living out your literary character Krimel :-) Fewer sceptics at the 2010 event I see. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http

Re: [MD] The Greeks?

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Glendinning
the particular rules of the game that the umpire is applying. Violent agreement. The authority of a legal system is more important than the laws they enforce. (As I said I have no specific knowledge of the specific case) Ian On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Glendinning
AGI's need to negotiate the good as well as process the information. The good has dependencies in levels below the intellect. But now I'm repeating myself. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http

Re: [MD] The Greeks?

2010-06-16 Thread Ian Glendinning
Strangely relevant Matt ? http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sandel_the_lost_art_of_democratic_debate.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2010-06-15utm_campaign=newsletter_weeklyutm_medium=email Ian On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt

Re: [MD] The Greeks?

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
is often an ass. I don't believe fairness resides in the rules. Ian On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Matt Kundert pirsigafflict...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Mary, I went and saw Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in the theatre yesterday (mainly because it is hot in the desert, and so is Jake

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
power. Kurzweil, Goertzel and Wolfram ... not a bad day out for 200 bucks. There is a lot of hype here, but an injection of excitement is always good. Ian On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Krimel kri...@krimel.com wrote: Hi all, It has been and extra-ordinarily interesting past few days and I lost

Re: [MD] Transhumanism

2010-06-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
? I remain sceptical about the former happening until AGI evolves through replication and social organization. The latter I just see as natural human evolution. Ian [Ian] Explain the Goertzel sent an emissary to the MoQ remark? [Krimel] Try searching Goertzel on the Moq.org site. [Ian

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-14 Thread Ian Glendinning
Glad to be of service John, Ian On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM, John Carl ridgecoy...@gmail.com wrote: Greetz All, I was toodling around yesterday, following a link Matt sent, (thanks Matt) and came across a book review Pirsig did in 1975, about a man going through divorce. http

Re: [MD] Re Ian

2010-06-13 Thread Ian Glendinning
Great, but world comprising only mothers is unworkable. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Fam. Kintziger-Karaca kintziger_kar...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi gang (Ian) total chaos =pattern of maximum diffusion. Chaos is the mother of all patterns, as in chaos before the big bang. The value

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-11 Thread Ian Glendinning
be unpredictable, but that doesn't make them unstable. And pairs being more predictable / intelligible does prevent then from being unstable. But 100% chaotic dynamism s with zero predictable stability would be ... err ... chaos. Dynamic quality needs static patterns too. Ian On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:15 PM

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Glendinning
To John the enthusiast of group things, from Ian the enthusiast of paired things. I call this the three-body-problem - after Newton. Pairs work because they are (sufficiently) predictable three or more, chaos. Workable groups are made of pairs of pairs of pairs of ... Jerry Garcia and Neal

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
.) Regards Ian On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Matt, Hi Matt, It's no big deal.  It's an ailing social pattern.  I'm trying to consider its value.  Is it an instrument of the church?  Is it an instrument of the state?  Where does its value lie?  Or maybe I'm

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-09 Thread Ian Glendinning
What do we think about that ? Confusing causation with correlation I'd say ;-) Ian On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:30 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: I remember hearing that men who are married live longer, while it is women who are single that live longer.  Interesting statistic wouldn't you say

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-07 Thread Ian Glendinning
-mate has shared-values when all is said and done, and it's values that matter. Regards Ian On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 9:28 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi John, I like the story, but I like all your stories. At first I thought a discussion concerning Tipper and Al a bit stupid too. I agree

Re: [MD] until death do us part

2010-06-07 Thread Ian Glendinning
PS forgot to ask, who are Al and Tipper ? On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: As a non-inspector of non-pinheads Marsha, I'll give you my non-intellectual story. My wife and I have been married a little under 30 years. For the years between 10

Re: [MD] loopty-loop

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
just not the subject of the book you are currently reading. Ian On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:42 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Hi Platt, Yes, it does seem that way.  He does plenty of talking about patterns, and I did get a little hopeful, but no he's a materialist.  One wants to ask him why

[MD] Buddha in the Machine

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
This may be of interest. http://www.psybertron.org/?p=3403 Ian 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

Re: [MD] loopty-loop

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
too. Quality matters. Ian On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:44 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Ian, That may be.  I would like to read more.  He seems like not only an interesting thinker, but a very nice man.  But at this point he does seem to consider the brain as something 'real'. I have

Re: [MD] Art and Stories

2010-06-01 Thread Ian Glendinning
. Regards Ian On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Just finished Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, the latest from the author of Life of Pi--one of my all-time favorites: Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real

Re: [MD] The Gulfs between me and Disneyland

2010-05-26 Thread Ian Glendinning
And lest Ron is offended ... clearly the quality of Ron's experience of Disney was the family, not Disney per se. Jeez, it's even been called quality time by SOMists for a decade or two ... Ian. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John

Re: [MD] The Moors

2010-05-24 Thread Ian Glendinning
between Hofstadter and Pirsig's early biographies ... Ian On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, MarshaV val...@att.net wrote: Adrie, At the moment, I'm reading 'I Am A Strange Loop' by Douglas Hofstadter.   Could you explain you bargain to get me to read Hawking's book?  Hawking seems to be more

Re: [MD] Venn or Ziggurat

2010-05-18 Thread Ian Glendinning
Frank, I tend to think of the stack as a cone of pyramid, then you get the circular (or square) Venn diagram by looking down on it. Ian On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Frank Booth frankboot...@yahoo.com wrote: I often hear of the levels as if stacked up like a ziggurat. Wouldn't a Venn diagram

Re: [MD] Venn or Ziggurat

2010-05-18 Thread Ian Glendinning
on it. Ian  in response to Franf's: I often hear of the levels as if stacked up like a ziggurat. Wouldn't a Venn diagram with 4 concentric regions be truer to the concept of quality built of quality built of quality built of quality? Andre: Or the ZEN circle. Moq_Discuss mailing list

Re: [MD] the good

2010-05-17 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hi Ron, a holiday (from anything) is always good, but I couldn't imagine a worse place to spend 10 hours let alone 10 days than Disney World. Ian On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:41 AM, X Acto xa...@rocketmail.com wrote: Just spent a week, 10 days exact, Disney world. Did'nt think once about work

Re: [MD] James on the BBC

2010-05-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
of the latter. And earlier the idea of scientists being in the grip of scientistic dogma. Ian On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed that next week's BBC Radio 4 In Our Time is on William James Varieties ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

Re: [MD] Rorty, Pirsig and the Sophists

2010-05-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
? It might help if I understood the phrase retains the old bias of epistemology ? (Personally, when I think epistemology, I'm thinking the meaning of life, not the meaning of words.) Regards Ian On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:31 PM, david buchanan dmbucha...@hotmail.com wrote: All interested MOQers

Re: [MD] e: Reading Comprehension

2010-05-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
Arlo, Marsha, Marsha, is your problem reacting to Arlo saying this is how it is - the insulting schoolmasterly impression - because you are missing that his sentences start with IF ? Just logical consequences of the statements of others. Ian On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Arlo Bensinger ajb

Re: [MD] e: Reading Comprehension

2010-05-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
, but the argument may not actually have been a logical one anyway. What is lost, is trust. Ian 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

Re: [MD] e: Reading Comprehension

2010-05-15 Thread Ian Glendinning
Are you weird, Marsha ? Not to me. Beautifully human. That NATURE is intellect was preceded by the clause IF intellect is SOM ...then .. is an example of something you may have missed ? Arlo wasn't asserting anything forecfuly at all. Ian On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:25 AM, MarshaV val...@att.net

[MD] Quality of Design / Engineering

2010-05-11 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hi folks, Not sure how many people know Chris Bartneck's work, but he shared a link with us to a lecture he gives on quality in design ... http://www.psybertron.org/?p=3344 (And Bob commented ... notice) Regards Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org

Re: [MD] Reading Comprehension

2010-05-11 Thread Ian Glendinning
You're gonna have to introduce yourself Frank ... ? Ian On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Frank Booth frankboot...@yahoo.com wrote: Godamnitalltohell. ( kicks can, sulks away. ) Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org

Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

2010-05-10 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hey Craig, talking of theoretical matter, is there something you're not telling us ? http://phonkmeister.com/post/556824674/time-machine Ian On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:00 PM, craig...@comcast.net wrote: The MOQ says that Quality comes first which produces ideas which produce what we know

Re: [MD] Know-how

2010-05-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
something to do with know-that ... in this context. Regards Ian PS, I'm interested again Steve ;-) Circularity is BETTER than logical definitions. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail

Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

2010-05-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
Bo, trying hard here ... (inserted below) ... On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:52 PM, skut...@online.no wrote: Ian You wrote: Hopefully Bo, you can therefore see why I 99% agree with your position. In a way, the only thing I resist in your position is the tendency to wrap the good in a static

Re: [MD] Know-how

2010-05-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
Ha, With emphasis on the word I left out of my sentence - Doh! how DO we know that Ian On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ian Glendinning ian.glendinn...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, Matt, n'all ... In fact the intellectual is about the behaviour of thinking how we know that ... where know-how

[MD] James on the BBC

2010-05-08 Thread Ian Glendinning
Just noticed that next week's BBC Radio 4 In Our Time is on William James Varieties ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail

Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

2010-05-06 Thread Ian Glendinning
by rigidly encasing it, it is possible to do the same with Quality in the MoQ if we don't allow it (and its definitions) room to breathe, room for atma. You're happy being 99% perfect, but I ... wanna go one better ;-) Ian On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:59 PM, skut...@online.no wrote: Ian and Group 4 May

Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

2010-05-05 Thread Ian Glendinning
Hi Steve, No, I think I do get DMB, he said exactly what I said he'd say ... ie he does NOT say truth is whatever we feel justified in believing. His emphasis not mine. Back to what I'd said ... You said I don't see any difference between Ian says that X is true and Ian says he believes that X

[MD] Philosophy Music Festival anyone ?

2010-05-05 Thread Ian Glendinning
http://www.howthelightgetsin.org/ Ian 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

Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

2010-05-05 Thread Ian Glendinning
stop you arguing with DMB. Ian On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Steven Peterson peterson.st...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ian, Ian: No, I think I do get DMB, he said exactly what I said he'd say ... ie he does NOT say truth is whatever we feel justified in believing. His emphasis not mine. Steve

Re: [MD] Pirsig's theory of truth

2010-05-04 Thread Ian Glendinning
from which more static patterns might emerge. It is simply good to treat the MoQ as if it had existed before being intellectually expressed (See Gravity above). Regards Ian PS come back Paul Turner Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi

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