[MD] The MOQ's First Principle

[David M]

Agree too

David M

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From: "Arlo Bensinger" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [MD] The MOQ's First Principle


> [Ian]
> I actually believe we have a whole series of "onion-skins" making up the
> whole socio-cultural-intellectual levels.
>
> [Arlo]
> I agree, but also think we have a whole series of onion-skins making up 
> the
> inorganic and biological too. I mean the biological level jumps from an
> amoeba to a dolphin. Inorganic encompasses quarks to quartz.
>
> And, I think, if we consider the emergentist nature of the MOQ, where
> collective activity of individuals give rise to the emergence of higher
> level patterns, this also occurs in gradations within the levels. Muscles
> and organs arise from the collective activity of individual cells. Human
> bodies arise from the collective activity of muscles and organs. Etc. So
> although we see evolutionary leaps creating four broad levels, within 
> level
> evolution occurs as well. Or, perhaps better stated, evolution is a
> continuum eventually reaching a point of complexity on one level from 
> which
> an entirely new level is able to emerge (social patterns could not emerge
> from biological patterns until those biological patterns reached a certain
> point of complexity).
>
> So while the four MOQ levels provide broad classification categories, we
> should not surmise that everything within any particular level is
> evolutionarily (or morally) equal.
>
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