[MD] Quantum computing
Arlo Bensinger
ajb102 at psu.edu
Fri Mar 2 09:36:00 PST 2007
[Arlo]
Below when I say "as a metaphysics, its descriptions can contain
experience without paradox.", I meant to say "as a metaphysics, its
descriptions can NOT contain experience without paradox."
Sorry for the confusion.
At 11:01 AM 3/2/2007, you wrote:
>[Platt]
>Now the MOQ level has arrived and people can think about intellect as
>a static value pure and simple, thus bypassing paradox, recursions,
>strange loops and infinite regress
>
>[Arlo]
>I'm sorry, Platt, gonna have to disagree with you on this. The only
>way to "bypass" strange loops is to avoid "intellection" altogether.
>The "out" in the MOQ is the pre-intellectual, "mystical" inclusion
>brought in via Buddhism (for example). One simply can't "think about
>thinking", even using MOQ-terminology, and avoid paradox, recursion and loops.
>
>What the MOQ does is make evident the "event horizon" surrounding
>Quality. When Pirsig says "all this is just an analogy", he includes
>within it the MOQ itself. Sure, the MOQ gives us a better way to
>intellectually carve-up our experiences, and does not divide us from
>the world as does SOM, but as an intellectual system, as a
>metaphysics, its descriptions can contain experience without paradox.
>Indeed, the key difference is that while SOM is blind to this, and
>actively seeks an intellectual "literal truth", the MOQ embraces it,
>and says that that core experience can only be seen through analogy,
>metaphor, art, can only be glimpsed pre-intellectually.
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