[MD] metaphysics, substance, intellect

[Joseph Maurer]

On Friday 6 July 2007 10:41:34 PM Jared M writes to Joe (and all)

thanks for such a warm welcome.
preficing your response with "IMO" indicates a certain dynamic quality.
therefore i submit to you the following ideas; cutting an other edge of
reality.

1.) the periodic table is a useful way to illustrate physical value 
relationships.
it has great static quality.

2.) life/evolution is a process that manifests itself as a queer, seemingly 
anti-entropic
phenomenon that the constituent "value relationships" (matter/stuff) 
described in the table convey.the table is a result of evolution; homosapiens, a result of evolution, 
created the table and therefore it shall not deny
it.

my interjection of Emerson's essay is meant to inspire discussion of the 
transcendental or "dynamic quality" correlation between two brilliant 
philosophers, disparate only by time (one hundred years.)

Hi Jared and all,

Hey!  Thanks for your input, and welcome!

IMO Pirsig proposed evolution as the basis of morality in that if the higher level destroys the lower level it destroys itself by stopping evolution. If the lower level destroys the higher level it denies its own existence and will cease to exist as a level.

The periodic table is a numbers game where you cannot divide by 0. In the language game of evolution proposed by Pirsig 0 divides the levels. Aristotle proposed prime matter as almost 0. The ‘transcendental’ accepts a mind-body split which leads to a subjective objective division of thought. For Pirsig objective, subjective depends on value not mind. For myself I see value determined in an octave relationship, rather than only the 4 levels of organic, inorganic, social, intellectual proposed by Pirsig.

Joe


Joe,(and all)
thanks for such a warm welcome.
preficing your response with "IMO" indicates a certain dynamic quality.
therefore i submit to you the following ideas;  cutting an other edge of
reality.

1.) the periodic table is a useful way to illustrate physical value 
relationships.
it has great static quality.

2.) life/evolution is a process that manifests itself as a queer, seemingly 
anti-entropic
phenomenon that the constituent "value relationships"  (matter/stuff) 
described in the table convey.
the table is a result of evolution; homosapiens, a result of evolution, 
created the table and therefore it shall not deny
it.

my interjection of Emerson's essay is meant to inspire discussion of the 
transcendental or "dynamic quality" correlation between two brilliant 
philosophers, disparate only by time (one hundred years.)


-jared