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

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On 13 Nov 2009 at 17:10, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Platt]
> So goodness is always there to be "seen" or "deemed" as such by 
> quarks, atoms, molecules, amoebas, animals, colleges, nations, novels 
> theorems, axioms and all other static patterns?
> 
> [Arlo]
> Quality is the foundation, the landscape, the frame, the firmament, 
> yes. I personally would not use the word "goodness" as to me it 
> implies some conceptualization of the Quality-response. An amoeba 
> retracts from acid because of a valuation of "low quality".

I see. And did that landscape, frame, firmament just emerge? If so, why, 
how and from what?


> [Platt]
> Neither.
> 
> [Arlo]
> That can't be, because you stated that the reason quarks prefer the 
> attractions they do is to make a cosmos recognizable (and 
> inhabitable) by "man". So either they have decided to do this, or 
> Quality is ordering them to do this. How else could "man" factor into 
> their value preferences?

Like suggested before, read Chapter 11 of Lila to see how it all works. If 
you have some beef with Pirsig's explanation, out with it.