Samuel Palmer (spalmer@fundy.ca)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 17:59:31 +0100
> Dear Platt and LS
>
> Platt Holden wrote:
>
> > Diana has the thankless job of taking all the Squad's offerings and coming
> > up with a succinct statement everyone will more or less be happy with. She
> > undoubtedly knows more than anyone how hard that's going to be. She's
> > already in trouble by saying "Reality is everything" because she sets up a
> > boundary between everything and nothing. Pirsig says, "Or 'zero' or 'space'
> > for that matter. Today these terms have almost nothing to do with nothing.
> > 'Zero' and 'space' are complex relationships of 'somethingness.'" In other
> > words, nothing is something, a logical absurdity.
>
>
> Everything is everything so if nothing is something then everything is
> nothing as well. Something that transcends everything is something as
> well, consequently it is also everything. It may be a logical absurdity,
> but, as quantum physics has shown us, the universe is logically absurd.
> Any accurate theory of the universe would therefore also have to be
> logically absurd. The problem that philosophy faces is that without
> logic as a measuring rod we have no way to evaluate things. It seems
> that you can say anything at all because the irrational has now become
> rational. The MoQ offers a solution to that problem by by proposing
> Quality as the new measuring rod. Whether or not it will work remains to
> be seen.
>
> As for the question at hand. I say we stick to "Quality is reality". It
> avoids the everything and nothing question. And I think we just have to
> accept that not everything in the MoQ can be defined. It's either that
> or give up the whole thing. Reality is a collective hunch. That's
> probably the best we can do.
>
>
> Diana
>
With respect to the questions about everything/nothing, this seems
to be troublesome mostly because of the limitations of our language.
The MoQ suggests that the universe itself is founded on value.
Perhaps the issue can be resolved algebraicly, assuming that the
contents of our universe contain equal quantities of negative and
positive values, then the sum of all parts would equal zero. In that
sense, it is perfectly logical to suggest than when everything is added
up, you'll get nothing.
Samuel Palmer
spalmer@fundy.ca
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