[MD] The Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
Marsha processes all kinds of patterns.  She processes millions of 
patterns in a single day, some intellectual, some not.  I am not an 
intellectual;  I am not a single definition of anything.  I'm not 
even a grandmother.  Can you even consider what it is not to attach 
to such superficial self-identification.  I'm this.  I'm that.  What 
utter ridiculousness!

[Arlo]
This is quite a tangent from my point, but...

If you are not attached to "superficial self-identification", why do 
you sign all your posts "Marsha"?

I'd never say you are "one thing" and forever trapped in that 
definition. Even as a "son" or "father", that role changes over the 
course of a lifetime. But to claim that you are totally free from 
being "this" or "that" is utter ridiculousness. When you daughter 
calls you, do you tell her "I don't have a daughter, and I am not a 
mother"? What would the point of that be? I am not sure if your 
mother is still with you, but if she is or when she was, did you tell 
her "you are not my mother because I am not a daughter"? Do you tell 
your grandchildren you are not their grandmother because you are not 
this and not that? If they are not your grandchildren, why do you 
treat them differently than any other child that age you come across?

When you sign all your posts "Marsha", there is a stable pattern of 
identification, a desire to thread consistency through your posts, 
that is the pointer "Marsha". You are not an intellectual because 
you've been assigned that label, you are an intellectual because you 
enjoy the activity of philosophy, of thinking about metaphysical 
issues, of playing with patterns of thinking. It is not more 
derogatory a label than "mother", which you affirm every time you 
nurture and console and teach and support and raise and advise and 
love and provide for your child. "Grandmother" is not an artificial 
trap of some kind, it is a testament to your activity.