Jamie, David and Walter
Thanks for the comments, Jamie. I agree with what you have written and
added, and I loved all the great input from David and Walter. However, I
want to share one other old analogy on DQ as opposed to sq.
In a letter to Horse and Walter about 6 months ago, I used the example of
rolling a lump of clay. As you roll it, the experience (for the clay)
changes. Originally, the experience is one of getting rounder and changing
shape. The clay experiences its rough edges being smoothed out. With
continued rolling, the experience changes as the clay gets fewer edges and
bumps. The experience becomes different....less extreme. When our clay
becomes perfectly round, it will still feel itself spinning , but the impact
of all this rolling is pretty much neutral.... it is ignored.
(BTW An Alzheimer patient would be like a lump of clay that smoothed briefly
with each roll, but then always bounced back to original shape. It can roll
forever, and the experience of being reshaped persists.)
The dynamic experience of listening to a song is similar to our clay
rolling. The first listen or two are quite different experiences than the
thousandth re-listen. Eventually if played indefinitely, a song would be
filtered out as background noise.
In the MOQ, experience is primary. The thousandth experience is quite
different than the first, and the subject and object that are created from
the experience are correspondingly changing. On the other hand, in regular
(non MOQ) metaphysics, the only reasonable explanation to the change in
experience is purely subjective.....The Song Remains The Same so the
listener must have changed perceptions on it. Perception in classic
metaphysics belongs to the subject. In the MOQ, the experience is
considered foremost and the song and listener are abstracted from the process.
But Then Again, I Could Be Wrong
Roger
(Feel free to quote as you'd like BTW)
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