Hello everyone
>From: Dave Moller <davemoller_nz@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: MD Self, Free/Determinism : a short essay (again... ;)
>Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:42:51 +0100 (BST)
>
> > > > Experience is experience. Quality CAN be
> > defined, to a point. That is
> > >what
> > > > we are attempting here.
>
>
>Um... I have been thinking about this a bit.
>
>Right, we have static quality and dynamic quality.
>The point above says that quality can be defined to a
>point but really I think we could say that static
>quality is very definable and dynamic quality is
>specifically undefinable.
>
>This arises because the definition of dynamic quality
>changes it to static quality. As we go through life
>we experience dynamic quality all the time and from
>that create static patterns. These patterns might be
>right or might be wrong but they are the definitions
>of the dynamic quality that we have experienced.
Hi Dave
In a sense, yes, but it seems better to say experienced patterns are
definitions of static quality, not Dynamic Quality.
>
>For example. The first time I ever saw a tree I
>experienced it purely on a dynamic quality level, I
>had no past experience to bring to the table. But as
>I saw more trees I began to expect particular traits
>within them. That is because I had built up in my
>mind a static pattern for trees or a definition of
>what a tree is, or as in ZAMM a priori (sic?).
I cannot remember the first time I saw a tree, which reinforces my point
above.
>
>So our goal can't be to define dynamic quality because
>as soon as it is defined it is static but our goal
>should be very similar to this. Our goal should be to
>always look into dynamic quality to improve our
>definitions (our static quality) and make them closer
>to the true dynamic quality of reality. Our main
>problem arises if we stop seeing the dynamic quality
>and start believing that the definitions (static
>patterns) we have built up previously are total truth
>because then we cease to grow and improve.
We cannot look into Dynamic Quality but we can respond to it.
>
>Just an idea anyway.
Thank you for sharing.
Dan
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