[MD] Chance v. Dynamic Quality

[Platt Holden]

> [Platt]
> So what do you attribute mind emerging from mud? 
> 
> [Arlo]
> I am asking YOU, since YOU deride "chance" and say "it's DQ and not
> chance",
> what are the DISTINCTIONS between chance and DQ that you are pointing
> to?
> 
> I've said repeatedly, the difference you point to seems to be "intent".
> That DQ
> somehow "plans and orders" things to "cause" a certain outcome...
> "Qualigod".
> 
> No, I do not think there is a "master planner" who orders and manipulates
> the
> cosmos to produce an intentional outcome. There is no "plan". If there
> is,
> where does it reside? In the mind of Qualigod? And, btw, "mind" does not
> emerge
> from "mud". "Mind" emerges from a complex web of neural patterns that form
> atop
> a complex nervous system.

So how does a complex nervous system emerge from mud?