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

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Mark]
What created the universe?  If you say chance, then you are just 
replacing God with another word, in that case you should at least 
capitalize it as in Chance.

[Arlo]
This is a fallacy pushed by theists, I know. Sort of like how 
"science is just another religion". By your same token, Quality is 
also just another God. This is an argument that crops up again and 
again by theists or Christian apologists in the forum unable or 
unwilling to accept Pirsig's "anti-theistic" metaphysics.

Despite Platt's willful ignorance on the topic of emergence, the MOQ 
proposes an emergentist explanation to how things came to be, not a 
creative one. Nothing "created" the Universe, the Universe "emerged" 
as a response to Quality. Nothing "created" carbon atoms, what we 
call "carbon atoms" are patterns that emerged from subatomic 
particles responding to Quality, to their free (albeit very limited) 
response to DQ.