[MD] Heads or tails?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:


> [Case]
> My view of Quality is a bit different than some. I regard Quality as The
> Way. It exists in the moment of sensation; when we instantly begin the
> process of classifying sensation into perception. It is a "Blink" moment

> It is disappointing to me that instead of taking this seriously he reached
> for teleology as a kind of Alka-Seltzer for the soul. In other words rather
> the face up to the uncertainty implied in an undefined path, he chose to
> call it Quality and treat it as a kind of Omega Point which comes from
> Teilhard de Chardin and is much abused by Wilber. To me this is a regression
> to the Aristotelian notion of purpose or final cause. This bit of absurdity
> should have been abandoned in the 1600's with Bacon and the advent of
> natural philosophy but as we can see some habits of thought die hard.

The philosophy of "oops" ought to be abandoned for its inability to explain or
hope of ever explaining. 

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