[MD] Emotions' place? and why thinking is not SOM

[ml]

gav,

This is a very thoughtful analysis.

My only comment is that the word choice
of 'aesthetic' is almost right.   I don't know
what the right word is, but it's something
else.

thanks--mel


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From: "gav" <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Emotions' place? and why thinking is not SOM


> sq is any pattern abstracted from the flow of experience (dq)
>
<snip>

> the nature of dq - the cutting edge, is aesthetic, not emotional. there is
a difference. emotions are motivating forces felt within the body and
reinforced/refined by the mind. they are a psycho-somatic response to the
initial *aesthetic* experience - which in other words is the experience of
quality - ineffable, beyond def (once you try you lose it).
>
> dq - unified immediate experience: aesthetic stimulus that gets the
emotional rollercoaster rockin. the stimulus is not the emotion.
>
> and remember all this is clever word stuff. really there is no dq and sq,
just Q - even the dq/sq split is an essentially imaginary first cut. just
more fundamental than the secondary cut of the static levels

<snip of lots of other good stuff, too>