Hi Brad,
Thanks for your challenging post.
I wrote:
"The emotions can often filter out reality. Lila's
experience walking through New York was I think primarily
emotional- she was attaching static patterns of value to
her environment as a result of her fear, insecurity,
anger, ..."
To which you replied:
"If reality is filtered out it's because static patterns
are
controlling the emotions, not because of the emotions
themselves."
***
In the intellect's pursuit of DQ (which I think is better
than a retreat into static patterns of subject/object
thinking) to regard emotions as front-end perceivers of
reality might be slipping back into dualism. What after all
are the emotions apart from static patterns? Is a new born
baby born with emotions? Are they discrete entities? Or are
we just utilizing a linguistic convention?
BRAD:
"A genius whose limbic system was suddenly damaged might
stand in
front of a car coming at her at 60 mph without any concern,
i.e. she is
unable to adapt to the present reality. All that intellect
is useless without a guide, a DQ perceiver."
I'd rather think of the limbic system as an
emotion-processing center. In a new born baby, this center
is usually in place. And then as the child interacts with
her environment, Dynamic Quality generates static patterns
of value through this emotion-processing center. In this
way, DQ precedes emotions. In your example, the genius has
been stripped of not only her emotion-processing center,
but the static patterns processed through it. As I
understand the MOQ it's not pre-patterned emotions that
respond to DQ, but rather that there is a 'Q-human
spectrum' along which both static patterns act to filter
out reality, and reality generates new static patterns in
its wake. In the case of your 'limbically-challenged'
genius, Dynamic Quality looks set to generate a static
pattern of inorganic value :(
All the best,
Mark
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