[MD] The tetra lemma

[Platt Holden]

> > Hi Ron, 
> > 
> > Do you think betterness exists and can be sensed?
> > 
> > Hello Platt,
> > I think better-ness is the act of exceeding standards
> > in the way of valuing the spirit of those standards over the
> > letter of those standards. 
> > I think better-ness, as intellect, is conditional to the level it
> > applies to.
> > I think we are better-ness.
> > 
> > to sense it is to "be"
> 
> Platt:
> 
> I take that as a "yes" to my question. 
> 
> To follow up, do you agree with 
> Pirsig?
> 
> "In the third box are the biological patterns: senses of touch, sight 
> hearing, smell and taste. The Metaphysics of Quality follows the
> empirical 
> tradition here in saying that the senses are the starting point of
> reality, 
> but -- all importantly -- it includes a sense of value. Values are 
> phenomena. To ignore them is to misread the world." (SODV) 
> 
> Ron:
> Depends on the way you understand the term value to mean in this
> statement,
> are we talking biological value, social value, intellectual? value
> in terms of a general universal? that's a broad spectrum of meaning
> for one term. Value is the process of a complex bonding and decay.
> to ignore this process and it's patterns is misreading the world.
> To ignore dynamic Quality and cling to the static is to increase
>  distortion. Static Quality is a distortion of dynamic quality.
> 
> In this way I agree with the statement.

A few questions. A "bonding and decay" of what? Should I not "cling" to the 
static pattern called "mind?"  How does DQ "distort" what it has created?

Thanks, Ron.
Platt