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

[plattholden at gmail.com]

If there's a reality beyond our recognition or understanding, how in the 
world will you recognize or understand it? The examples you imagine 
are all recognizable and understandable. As for understanding Quality, 
nothing could be easier: some things are better than others.

Platt
 


On 13 Nov 2009 at 19:36, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:

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> [Platt] 
> > You seem to posit a reality beyond our recognition or understanding. 
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> Indeed I do.  Nothing is clearer than that this has always been the case. 
> The Greeks based reality on earth, air, fire & water.  Later it was atoms, 
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> then quarks, then strings, then m-branes, then... 
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> Within the next hundred years we will be able to talk to the other 
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> animals on our planet.  After that to aliens that are hundreds of thousands 
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> or even millions of years more advanced than us.  We have no idea what 
> they can teach us. 
> We can of course hold that however deeply we come to understand reality, 
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> the most fundamental level of reality we will give the name "Quality". 
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> But we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking that we completely understand 
> what that is yet. 
> Craig 
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