[MD] MOQ and Art

[ian glendinning]

Peter said
"but discrimination is still the key in human doings"

I like that. Substitute "classification" for discrimination and we
have the root of our evolved ontological view of the world.
Discrimination is more active sounding verb though, reminding us that
it's somethig we do, not something that is naturally in the world
itself. As you said "doings" rather than "beings".

As a side issue, quite separate from "saving the world with
philosophy" levels of debate, I am constantly (in my day job) having
to point out the human nature level of taxonomy when people specify
their requirements (for computer software); the fact that so much of
it is engrained human nature, that the humans (users) forget to
specify the most important bits - they expect fellow humans (software
developers) to take them as given.Source of much confusion IMHO.

Regards
Ian

On 9/5/06, Peter Corteen <psigenics at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that quotation recalled by Marsha contained probably the only bit of ZMM or
> Lila that I remembered verbatim too:
>
> 'You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself
> perfect and
> then just paint naturally'.
>
> That was fuel to me for years; and I still think there is a lot in it. But,
> of course, it aint completely true. We are limited both by our genes and our
> environment. Nobody can perfect themselves, but discrimination is still the
> key in human doings.
>
> Peter
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