[MD] seeing beyond the mirror (was: Heads or tails?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

>      [Platt]
> > Our sense of value (Quality) is basically rooted in
> > the inorganic and biological
> > levels (Even a worm knows it's better here) but is
> > influenced by static patterns
> > of culture and intellect as we mature.

[SA] 
>      static patterns is static quality

Yes, but don't forget Dynamic Quality -- our initial sense of value at the
cutting edge of experience. 

>      [Platt]
> > Still, the reactions are emotional rather
> > than intellectual since they occur "prior to
> > intellectual abstractions."

[SA] 
>      Sure, and a static level of quality called
> intellectual level is a pattern occurring as we
> mature.  

Yes -- but DQ, our primary sense of value, is pre-intellectual.

>      [Platt]
> > That's my interpretation anyway. Do you see it
> otherwise?

[SA] 
>      If your saying that intellect and culture is not
> quality, and I'm saying quality is static and dynamic,
> then yes, I see otherwise.

Intellect and culture are static patterns of quality that can and often do affect
our pre-intellect response to DQ. "Just as the patterns of intelligence have 
a sense of disgust about the body functions . . ." (Lila, 15)



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