Hi Walter, David B. and Group:
I agree with David B. that Walter Balestra’s post to Ken Clark was
top drawer stuff. By emphasizing increases in awareness as steps
in increasing morality, Walter has IMHO put his finger on the
essence of the MOQ.
When this site began a couple of years ago, Diana, the creator of
this site, asked us to set down what we considered to be basic
principles of the MOQ. Number 2 on my list of 13 principles was
the following:
2. The Awareness Principle. The essence of Quality is know to us
as awareness without content - pure, unpatterned experience. As
such it is impossible to describe . Whenever we try, we end up
describing what we are aware of, not awareness itself.
Evolutionary increases in awareness that Walter cited were
covered in principles 5 and 6:
5. The Awareness Hierarchy Principle. Each higher level evolved
from and included the lower but expanded awareness. For
example, the intellectual level can apprehend mathematical
patterns that the lower levels cannot. Also, all levels possess, in
addition to environmental awareness, an awareness of values. Even
a lowly virus knows what’s good for it.
6. The Moral Hierarchy Principle. Because high levels are more
aware, they are more moral than levels below. Intellectual patterns
take moral precedence over social patterns, social patterns over
biological patterns, and biological patterns over inorganic patterns.
Finally, principle 12 explained how Dynamic Quality promotes
greater awareness:
12. The Freedom Principle. To create even higher levels of
awareness, Dynamic Quality strives for freedom from all static
patterns. Freedom is the core value and highest Good in the
Metaphysics of Quality. Thus the best social and intellectual
patterns are those that promote freedom consistent with
maintaining the static patterns necessary for survival.
Perhaps this relates to David B.’s hierarchy of ideologies - the less
rigid our ideological patterns, the better.
In any event, I think Walter, David and I are basically on the same
page regarding the “awareness” aspect of the MOQ. Which, in
often contentious discussions, is worth remarking on I think.
Platt
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