[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[david buchanan]

Krimel said: Quality and "simple biological self preservation" are one and the same thing. [AND HE SAID] So Quality in this way has a much greater significance that "simple biological self preservation".

dmb says:I think these statements are at odds with each and that the latter is better. I think they're in sync if we say "simple biological self preservation" is a static 2nd level response to Quality. To say they are one and the same is to explain DQ in reductionistic, materialistic terms. If the hot stove example was meant to be a discussion of physiology he could have just said it was instinct and the sense of touch that gets you off the stove. This is not wrong, so much as beside the point. Yes, he's saying that the sense of quality is completely natural and non-intellectual, as even Arlo's dog knows, but biological responses to Quality are just one of the ways of responding. Not that I've ever walked on hot coals. But I have napped in the sun. 



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