[MD] When is a pattern not static?

[Ham Priday]

DMB, Chris, Steve, Bo, and all MoQists --


This may be a silly question, and I know it's been discussed before, but I 
have always been confused about Pirsig's use of "static" for S/O patterns 
and "dynamic" for the Quality that supports them.  And I suspect that I'm 
not alone in this confusion.  I've been told that DQ is dynamic because it 
gives rise to patterns (or at least encompasses them), but that doesn't seem 
to properly describe the unchanging foundational Quality, or the fact that 
most patterns are experienced as changing or evolving in some away.

For example, Chris has stated (correctly, I think, by MoQ standards):
> A ROCK - From a MOQ perspective...is a static inorganic pattern.
> It may also be used as an expression of social values depending on
> how it is used, and if the intellectual level is to look at a rock it 
> would
> be - a rock, an object made up of matter. Whatever matter is ^__^

Marsha:
> A rock is first of all a static pattern of value.

If a rock is a static pattern of value, is a meteor (also a rock) that 
flashes across the sky a static pattern?  You folks call Biology a level, 
rather than a pattern.  But is the biological process by which a fertilized 
cell multiplies, differentiates and becomes a living organism a static 
pattern?  Or are the the sperm cell, the egg, the embryo. the fetus, and the 
infant each a separate pattern?

In other words, when does a pattern begin (from a level), and are there any 
patterns that may be regarded as dynamic?  It seems to me that everything 
that exists is in some state of flux, moving from simple to complex, or 
evolving from the lowest (inorganic) to the highest (intellectual) level. 
If S/O reality is constantly changing, why are its components not dynamic?

Tangential to this is another question.  Chris suggested above that social 
values may also be patterns.  If this is true, does it mean that moral 
precepts or emotional feelings like Awareness, Freedom, Love, Justice, and 
Fear are social or intellectual patterns?   Are these "intermediate states" 
of recognized patterns, or are they only myths abstracted from Quality?

I'm not being critical; I simply need to understand the dynamics of this 
hierarchy as a logical ontology.  (If, indeed, "dynamics" is the correct 
word.)

Thanks for your help.

--Ham