[MD] Science catching up

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Micah <micah at roarkplumbing.com>:

> Platt,
> 
> The creative force behind the world's order? (which of course assumes that
> there is order to the world, without proof)
> 
> Micah

According to the MOQ, Dynamic Quality is the force behind the world's order.
Also according to the MOQ, the world is a moral order, consisting of four
levels plus DQ. I agree with the MOQ. Pirsig makes a strong case in Lila that
I accept as proof.

What do you think of the MOQ?

Platt



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> Quoting Micah <micah at roarkplumbing.com>:
> 
> > Platt,
> >
> > Is the answer Jesus?
> >
> > Micah
> 
> What's the question?
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In today's NY Times is a review of a new book by Mark D. Hauser, a Harvard
> > biologist, entitled "Moral Minds." In it he claims "people are born with a
> > moral grammar wired into their neural circuits by evolution." He argues
> > that grammar "generates instant moral judgments which . . . are
> > inaccessible to the conscious mind."
> >
> > In other words, Pirsig's morality of direct experience prior to
> > intellectual conceptions.
> >
> > Of course like most people today, Hauser limits moral decisions to human
> > societies, attributing our moral instinct to "restraints on behavior are
> > required by social living and have been favored by natural selection
> > because of their survival value." Maybe at some future time scientists and
> > others will escape from the language prison of social morality to
> > understand that right and wrong are not exclusively the province of  human
> > society, but the creative force behind the world's order.
> >
> > But, don't hold your breath.
> >
> > Best,
> > Platt


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