[MD] [MD} The SOM/MOQ discrepancy

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Ham,


> Craig --
>
> This message appears to have been posted following you response to my 
> most recent one, although it is a response to my earlier post of 12/4 
> in which I said:
>
> "Only a sensible agent can realize Value, and neither subject nor 
> object
> could exist in the absence of a non-relational source."
> Craig:
>> This is where we differ Ham, the MoQ suggests that Value
>> realises the 'agent' and it is after that point that subjects and
>> objects are deduced to 'exist'.
> Ham:
> I don't understand what you mean by "Value realizes the agent".  Since 
> an agent is an active, responsible cause (in this case, of actualizing 
> being from Value), it seems that you've stated the subject and 
> predicate in reverse.  Are you suggesting that value is a cognitive 
> entity with the sensibility to realize and the intellect to "deduce"?

Steve:
"Value realizes the agent" does not mean that value becomes aware of 
the agent. I assume what Craig means by "realizes" is that value makes 
the agent real. The agent is manifested by value. In other words, what 
we think of as the immutable self may be better thought of as a pattern 
of preferences. You are what you like.

Best,
Steve