[MD] Chance v. Dynamic Quality

[MarshaV]

At 12:24 PM 3/22/2009, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>ArloKrimel...
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>[Arlo]
>Are we back to being merged into one person again?
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>[Marsha]
>"All things tend towards patterns..."?    I'm out!
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>[Arlo]
>I wouldn't take this as dismissive of chance or DQ or change or whatnot. But I
>think its evident looking around that "patterns" or "preferred responses"
>are... err.... "preferred".


Arlo,

Maybe you mean 'patterns tend toward patterns', or 'processes tend 
towards patterns'.  Or at the very least, 'things ARE patterns'.   I 
thought this was too good to be true.

Hey, if you have any pull ;-) bring Woods-Woods back.


Marsha




Marsha






>As humans, I think, we tend to be very habituated beings. We wake at the same
>times, eat at the same times, enjoy televisions shows that are broadcast at
>regular times, enjoy repeating our favorite activities, we keep the same
>passwords, the same name, the same hair color and styles, we play our favorite
>song over and over, we have our tea-rituals or coffee-times or whatnot...
>indeed, the Zen approach in Japan (as Pirsig mentions in ZMM) is to embrace
>habits to the point where they become unconscious and hence "non-interferring"
>with meditation and the attempt to open oneself. Heck, the very fact that we
>have so much stability in our experience is testament to the preferredness of
>certain responses.
>
>Imagine, just on our level, if you woke up every day (at random times,
>sometimes 7am sometimes 9pm, and started that day with a different name, a
>different hair style, different manners of dress, different address, different
>personalities, different friends... it may be fun for a day or so, but
>eventually (I'd wager) you'd feel a need to form some sort of stable routine,
>some stable identity, some stable mannerisms. That's all I mean, we tend to
>like stability overall. Being in a hurricane is certainly "Dynamic", but would
>you want to live every moment of every day in there?
>
>What I could say, if you'd prefer, is that "all things tend towards
>preference". If this was not true, the cosmos would be a chaotic swirl of
>randomness and nothing more. This does not mean we shouldn't challenge our
>habits, and be open to change. Certainly not.
>
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