[MD] guidebook/primer

[gav]

i like your list mark. only 8 seems less than
clear.... doesn't know where to fit?

>8. A higher  Code of Art produces excellence at each
> level.

don't think this is the best way of putting it. maybe
best to talk of the code of art as part of the MoQ 
ontology or evolution? i think the DQ/sq moral code
just confuses the other moral codes. 

cheers
gav


--- Squonkonguitar at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> You want a layperson Primer also?
> OK. I would like to have a stab at that.
>  
> I'm delivering a MoQ lecture to a bunch of postgrads
> at the phil.  dept. 
> soon, so thinking about how to get these ideas
> across to those who may  never have 
> heard of the MoQ is useful for me.
>  
> I've condensed and added to the list:
>  
> The Metaphysics of Quality.
> List revision. b.
>  
> 1. Metaphysical basis: Quality - Mystic Monism.
> 2. MoQ ontology: Pure  Empirical, pre-conceptual DQ
> / conceptual sq
> 3. MoQ evolution: DQ is the source/goal of
> simultaneously  evolving levels of 
> sq.
> 4. sq ontology: Four evolutionary related,  discrete
> levels, non reducible to 
> previous levels:
> a. InO. Cosmology. Oldest patterns. Least Dynamic.
> b. Bio. Life.
> c. Soc. Imitated ritual - Celebrity status.
> d. Int. Symbolic manipulation. Newest patterns. Most
>  Dynamic.
> 5. New levels strive to evolve away from laws
> governing  immediate older 
> level, and do so at an accelerating rate of 
> evolutionary development.
> 6. Newer levels are more moral than older  levels -
> it is moral for newer 
> levels to dominate older  levels.
> 7. Older levels are less moral than newer levels -
> it is  immoral for older 
> levels to dominate newer levels.
> 8. A higher  Code of Art produces excellence at each
> level.
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