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

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"Although Dynamic Quality, the Quality of freedom, creates this world in 
which we live, these patterns of static quality, the quality of order, 
preserve our world." (Lila, 9)


On 13 Nov 2009 at 13:47, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Arlo had said]
> 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.
> 
> [Arlo makes a small correction]
> Despite Platt's willful ignorance on the topic of emergence, the MOQ 
> proposes an emergentist explanation to how things came to be, not a 
> *creationist* 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.
> 
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