Bodvar Skutvik (skutvik@online.no)
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:46:04 +0100
the lila squad
--In response to what Jason wrote (Aug.20):
One must keep the basics clear: Permanence as such is Static Value; What isn't is Dynamic Value. The quantum level below the Static Inorganic level displays no patterns, is principally uncertain and as such dynamic.
A level above the Static Intellectual level? This is a very interesting idea and in my view MOQ allows for a never ending escalation of static patterns, but "ascending value" is the Dynamic force at work and doesn't qualify as a static level.
As to the vague borderline between the different static levels I would say that this is no objection. According to the quality idea the static patterns are - like waves - patterns in an underlying dynamic medium: different from other patterns but of the same "stuff". No one can tell where matter ends and life begins, or where an organism ends and a society starts (a body can be seen as a society of cells), nor the difference between communal cooperation and cultural activities. Still, one recognizes it when one encounters the experience.
The "friendship" term (why not "love"?) is a good example of the interplay: As sexual/erotic/+ attraction it is an Organic value, as love/loyalty/sympathy ++ it is a Social value, but as Platonic love/empathy/+++ it is an Intellectual value. I admit that even this is ambiguous and may be debated, but the MOQ offers a general picture that makes so much more sense than the Subject/Object metaphysics.
Bodvar (Bo) Skutvik
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