[MD] Responding to DQ

[Gene M]

> > [Platt]
> > An amoeba moving away from acid is responding to DQ? Like saying my
> > stepping out of the way of oncoming truck or hopping off a hot stove is
> > responding to DQ. Surely you jest.
> >
> > [Arlo]
> > So, then what is the amoeba responding to?
>
> Threat to its survival--a static biological response to danger.
>
> Platt
>

Are you suggesting the amoeba is self-aware? Conscious of the impending
danger to it's existence and moving to save itself? The amoeba doesn't
understand existing, or trouble, or threat. It is simply reacting to Dynamic
Quality using static patterns, such as move away. This is a Great example of
DQ. Experience is always DQ, isn't it?

-Gene