[MD] What is the opposite of Quality?

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Marcus,


> Thanks for the quote but where does that lead us?
>
> First, he says you can't say anything about neither chaos nor DQ. But then
> he does anyway, and I get the feeling you all interpret it as Bruce's slide
> 9, i.e. that chaos is the opposite of DQ.
>
> To me, it doesn't matter whether chaos is the opposite of DQ or all of Q. It
> causes havoc either way. So even if I can agree it's a beautiful quote, the
> ramifications to the MoQ is (as I explained in an earlier post), well,
> chaos. :)
>
> Don't you see that?

I was concerned about this quote when I first used the term
"unpatterned awareness" for DQ. I think Bruce may be correct in
thinking of chaos as the opposite of Quality, but wrong in granting
any reality to chaos. It's hard to imagine the opposite of Quality,
but I think it makes sense to think of chaos as the absence of the
experience of value (static patterns as well as DQ), but that would be
the absence of experience all together--the absence of reality if
reality is Quality. So chaos is nothing to worry about incorporating
into an MOQ explanation other than to say that there is no such thing
as complete chaos.

Best,
Steve