[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[Ham Priday]

On Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Platt asked Craig:

> "Why does heredity work to insure survival?"  Or, more simply,
> "Why survive?  Or, as Pirsig inquired, "Why for example should
> a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen,
> oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize
> themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?" (Lila, 11).

Existence is perceived as an ordered system in process, and the order leads 
all process toward a final result.  Life is also a process in transition. 
But life forms are "self-perpetuating" in that they are ordered by the 
biological law of survival.  Only man has the power of  "intent", that is, 
the capacity to direct and shape his life in accordance with his will and 
values.

The apparent organization (teleology) of the finite universe not only 
represents the integrity of its absolute source, it is essential for 
cognitive experience.  That Pirsig imputes "motive" to the creation of a 
professor says more about him than about his objective environment. 
Motivation is a distinctly human conception of what is intellectualized as 
cause-and-effect.  Both of these precepts are objectivized "constructs" of 
value, which is the way we experience reality.  Since all experience and 
knowledge has its genesis in the individual (value-sensibility), we 
ourselves "create" the world around us, including its being, order, 
relations, dynamics, and "motives".  Our life-experience -- our 
'being-in-the-world' -- begins and ends with the differentiation of our 
sensibility to value.  Simply put: Existence is valuistic.

At least, that's the world according to Ham.

Essentially speaking,
h.