[MD] A World of Objects

[ian glendinning]

Exactly Dan,

Patterns of a higher level (social / intellectual) merely captured /
communicated / arising in patterns of a lower level
(phsyio-biological) substrate.

Ian

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Dan Glover <daneglover at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone
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> > From: IvarssonChristoffer at hotmail.com
> > To: moq_discuss at lists.moqtalk.org
> > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:50:53 +0100
> > Subject: [MD] A World of Objects
> >
> > Hello Everybody. I'm not going to be super-active here for a while because I'm
> > writing some history papers etc, but I did amuse myself a while ago by
> > asking around a bit on a internet forum with a philosophy section about how
> > people defined ideas and thoughts. About the only answers I got was
> > "electrical impulses in the brain" - meaning basically that they don't think
> > there is anything but objects. I was just wondering, how would any of you
> > answer to this.
>
> [Dan]
> The electrical impulses in the brain are like the novel on the computer disk. No matter what scientific instruments we use to measure the impulses, we will never find a thought or an idea. We will never discover the beauty of a sunset residing in those electrical impulses.
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> I think the MOQ would say people define ideas and thoughts according to culture. Ideas and thoughts do not arise from biology (elecctrical impulses in the brain). Thoughts (intellectual patterns of value) arise from social patterns of value.
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> > Well, back to work.
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> If you love what you do you'll never work a day in your life. If you don't love what
> you're doing then why are you doing it?
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> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Chris
>
> And to you,
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> Dan
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