[MD] growth and sustainability

[Platt Holden]

> 
> >> > Dear Chris:
> >> >
> >> > Do you are think all feelings (emotions) are biological?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks.
> >> > Platt
> >
> > [Chris]
> >> No, not all emotions are of the biological level, though they all need
> >> the
> >> biological level,  and of course the levels are overlapping and
> >> interrelated. But I do think that greed could be seen as a biological
> >> pattern, the basic drive for survival is greatly benefited by it. But
> >> when
> >> the social level comes along, it is important that it (the social
> level)
> >> can
> >> get this under control. Similarly it would seem to be the
> intellectual
> >> levels mission to, when reshaping social structures, to direct this
> drive
> >> at
> >> something intellectually Good. Ideally though, the MOQ will show the
> need
> >> for balance, because of course the intellectual level cannot build
> only
> >> for
> >> intellectual Good, that has been the problem before, there must be a
> MOQ
> >> perspective.
> 
> [Platt]
> > What emotions do you think are NOT of the biological level? Pirsig
> wrote:
> > "The MOQ sees emotions as a biological response to quality and not the
> > same
> > thing as quality.  There are many cases, particularly in economic
> activity
> > where values occur without any emotion." (LS, Note 141)
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
> I don't know - what's your point?

That all emotions are biological patterns with one exception -- the 
aesthetic response -- known only to man..