[MD] What is SOM?

[David M]

Hi Krim


 The MoQ, if properly framed, avoids this dualism as
> one might do in Chaos theory by stating that order is not distinct from
> disorder but is a subset or type of disorder. Thus SQ is not ontologically
> distinct from DQ at all. They are both manifestations of Quality.


DM: I think that is dead right about how MOQ avoids dualism.
But what is the status of all the SQ and the levels we can seem
to order them into? I think that we can see all the SQ as a
plurality of patterns and levels (a many) and hence SOM
is neither dualist or essentialist, but is a quality-experience monism
with a plurality of SQ as a Many coming out of the One of quality.
That's how I see it working. I would also add what is the status
of what liew outside of experience? Clearly we do make sense
of experience with ideas about what we have not experienced.
Many examples: black holes, potential depressions, the future,
the pre-human past, what lies beyond our corner of the universe.