[MD] apples, trees, and falling

[ralp manfred]

quoting...
>      [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.
  
   to say that our senses of value are influenced by intellect and culture (necessarily entirely static?) is a very astute understatement. it would seem to me that, not only is this the case, but consider the case where, under the influence of these mammoths, an individual infact reverses a particular level of quality, missing it for another, or mistaking it for some abstracted reinterpretation. consider cigarette smoking; the intake of a plethora of TOXIC CHEMICALS! on this point, the worm has us beat...  yet, even on this level, we may observe that this realm of value distinction has fallen away from our immediate range of conscious review. we can not micromanage our bodies on a cellular level (early bioquality) if we wish to manage ourselves on any other higher level. the nature of interplay between static and dynamic quality is that eventually, a static substrate will be built, or "selected" (darwinian sense) by the dynamic process in such a way that it has enough
 inherent quality to allow new levels and types of dynamics, which lead to new levels and types of statics, and so on. there are only so many levels on which we may sustain active participation in value determination. for instance, we MUST rely on our antibodies to make the correct decisions, because there is no possible oversight for us to assert on the relevant frequency...
what i am getting at, is the fact that, where ever originaly quality may be rooted, without the proper perspective being continuously sought, it is easy to fall very far away from the roots, perhaps convincing oneself that the best thing to do, despite the history of biocommunity, is to  strap a bomb onto self, and do what one has been convinced to do.
rlaph


 		
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