[MD] Oneness, Dualism & Intellect

[Squonkriff at aol.com]

Quoting Mati Palm-Leis <mpalm at merr.com>:

> If you want a  metaphysical understanding of Reality that does not delineate
> itself  then you really aren't interested in metaphysics but reality itself.
> If  so I humbly suggest a beautiful sunset, snow falling gently to earth, or
>  a smile of child. 

As I have often said, beauty guides us to what is most  real. So I agree
with Mati's statement above and bring to your attention a  clip from an
article in "Physics World" that points once again to beauty seen  in places
not usually thought of:

"When the 14-year-old Richard  Feynman first encountered eip + 1 = 0, the 
future
physics Nobel laureate  wrote in big, bold letters in his diary that it was
"the most remarkable  formula in math". Stanford University mathematics 
professor
Keith Devlin  claims that "like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very
essence of  love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form 
that
is far  more than just skin deep, Euler's equation reaches down into the very
depths  of existence". Meanwhile Paul Nahin - a retired US electrical 
engineer 
-  says in his recent book, Dr Euler's Fabulous Formula, that the expression  
sets
"the gold standard for mathematical beauty"." 

(p in the above  formula refers to pi) 

Platt 

Mark Hi Platt,
It's always wonderful to read people fascinating about beauty in an moq  
context, as you do here.
May i venture to suggest that beauty is a central part of what i term  
'Dynamic Pragmatism'?
There are many variations of pragmatism but the best yet developed in my  
view is that by the moq.
Here, DQ and beauty are linked in a ways not yet fully explored or  
appreciated by the moq community.
I feel the link is in the way sq relationships (including those of people  
and the patterns they find beautiful) unify and become opaque to DQ.
As DQ is revealed in these unified relationships more the relationships may  
be said to be more dynamic - what you term more, 'real?'
Love,
Mark