Glen
> I said the morals the physicists can't detect are the dynamic kind.
The "dynamic kind" is exactly what they are detecting. A dynamic event
occurs, it is experienced, "the sun rises", in the wake of this event a
theory (SIP) is proposed as to how and why this occurs. As this theory
persists and spreads within a society a stable body of laws, customs,
traditions (static patterns of value) develops. Whether these patterns
are called the mythology of the Ancient Egyptian Sun God, the physics of
celestial bodys, or the quantum mechanics of light, each in its own
context attempts to describe the event, but the description is NOT THE
EVENT, no matter how close to actuality it is.
To further compound the problem the event, "the sun rises", is not one
event but a simutaneous occurance of many events within a whole "named"
the sun, and this event is but a tiny part of a yet much larger group of
simutaneous events that is "everything". And these are occuring as a
continuum so closely packed as to blur the very concept of event. But
somehow we order this experience and over time as we both observe and
participate in these events it seems that there is a slow, persistant,
but not necessarily regular, trend in which these parts of "everything"
seem to be evolving towards greater degrees of freedom or autonomy from
the whole. This not only increases the freedom for the "part" but is an
overall increase in the level of freedom in the whole. This trend is
GOOD both for the parts and the whole. RMP sums up the MoQ with "GOOD
is a noun" The first noun definition of moral is: "the moral implication
or moral lesson taught by the..event." What is the moral lesson or
implication taught by events? They are GOOD and seem to have the
potential to get better. But as the freedom of any part to make choices
increases so do the responsiblities, without a good system to evaluate
these choices in the context of both the whole and the parts, the
rightness of the choices are not assured.
3WD
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