[MD] Animals and Dynamic Quality

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Arlo asked]
1. Could animals ever respond to DQ? 

[Platt]
No. 

[Arlo]
Also, see below where you suggest otherwise. But I'll take this answer as what
are you saying for now.

Okay, before humans, what did respond to DQ? If that thing no longer responds
to DQ, give me an example of what it did "before" (when it did respond to DQ)
that it can no longer do.

[Arlo had asked]
6. Before man (and these levels) how did things respond to DQ?

[Platt]
Luck

[Arlo]
I don't understand. Was there some feature of the thing that enabled it to
respond to DQ? 

[Platt]
Apparently you believe that everything responds to DQ every moment of every day
ad infinitum.

[Arlo]
I believe that Pirsig was correct in saying that "it's better here" is a
response to DQ. 

[Platt]
I believe based on Pirsig's explanation of evolution in Chapter 11 that I asked
you to read that a single atom or animal at one time responded to the moral
force of DQ to advance evolution. 

[Arlo]
You just said above animals could never respond to DQ. Are you now saying that
at one time they did?