[MD] Consciousness

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
The sun rising and setting, the seasons changing, plants growing and 
dying, animals fighting, fleeing. feeding and f ---ing are all 
examples of static patterns.

[Arlo]
No. What we see as "static patterns" are (in these examples) the 
amalgamation of inorganically and biologically mediated responses to 
Dynamic Quality.

A "static pattern" is not a "fixed thing", it appears as such only 
from a particular focal view. "The sun rising and setting" appears to 
be a static pattern from a view that considers human time in days and 
weeks, while a much larger macro-eon view would see this as a 
dynamic-evolutionary processes in the inorganically evolving 
firmament of the cosmos.

I also think you should tell you wife the next time you "f---" that 
it is not a response to "betterness" or Dynamic Quality, but doing it 
is a "static pattern". I'm sure she'll appreciate knowing that. (Or 
is it a response to DQ when humans "f---" but not when animals do 
it?) Let me give you the right answer. "F---ing" your wife is a 
biologically-mediated response to Dynamic Quality (just as pondering 
metaphysics is an intellectually-mediated response to Dynamic 
Quality, and painting is (to extrapolate from Pirsig) an 
aesthetically-mediated (code of art) response to Dynamic Quality). It 
is your biology (and hers, hopefully) responding to a "betterness", a 
value, and not a "static pattern" at all.