[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> DQ is at the front edge of Quality. So is static quality. 
> 
> [Arlo]
> And where o' where is this found in Lila? That both Dynamic and static
> quality is at the front-edge of experience?

Here it is step by step. 

1. "Quality is direct experience"

2. "Quality (is) divided into Dynamic and static components."

3. Ergo, there are both Dynamic and static components in direct 
experience.

Illustration:

"He found an example within the field of music. He said, imagine that 
you walk down a street past, say, a car where someone has the radio on 
and it plays a tune you've never heard before but which is so 
fantastically good it just stops you in your tracks. You listen until 
it's done. Days later you remember exactly what that street looked like 
when you heard that music. You remember what was in the store window 
you stood in front of. You remember what the colors of the cars in the 
street were, where the clouds were in the sky above the buildings 
across the street, and it all comes back so vividly you wonder what 
song they were playing, and so you wait until you hear it again. If 
it's that good you'll hear it again because other people will have 
heard it too and have had the same feelings and that will make it 
popular. One day it comes on the radio again and you get the same 
feeling again and you catch the name and you rush down the street to 
the record store and buy it and can hardly wait until you can get it 
home and play it.
"You get home. You play it. It's really good. It doesn't quite 
transform the whole room into something different but it's really good. 
You play it again. Really good. You play it another time. Still good, 
but you're not so sure you want to play it again. But you play it 
again. It's okay but now yon definitely don't want to play it again. 
You put it away."

Note the progression from Dynamic on the first hearing to less than 
Dynamic in subsequent hearings. Also note that all hearings occur as 
direct experience, but not all the hearings are Dynamic.

"Static quality is what you normally expect" 

99.9 percent of direct experience (Quality) is static quality.

"Dynamic Quality comes as a sort of surprise." Very little of direct experience
is surprising.

Platt