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

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Platt to Steve]
There's no evidence it is some sort of higher intelligence or acts in accord
with a predetermined plan. 

[Arlo]
This is actually good to hear. When you said that quarks value things in order
to make the cosmos recognizable to man, it leaves little room for anything BUT
a "predetermined plan". I mean, how else could you explain that billions and
billions of years ago, quarks acted in the best interest of "man"?

In saying the above, whether or not you will admit it, you actually admit
agreement with me. We are here not by some "plan", but by "chance". We are here
as the emergent result of billions of years of "responses to Quality". You
cannot escape the probability that we would not be here, our presence was never
certain. 

Given this, I am not sure why you feel it is more in line with the MOQ to say
"Quality created the MOQ" rather than "the MOQ emerged from Pirsig's responses
to Quality". Can you not see where the former removes "freedom" and "Bob" from
the equation, the latter preserves both. And it does so without implying that
there is any "plan" or greater force that created the MOQ. 

Again, take the statement "Quality created carbon atoms". It denies any free
value preference to the subatomic particles, the very value preference the MOQ
is built upon. In the same way saying "Quality created the Mona Lisa" removes
any free value response from the artist.

Also given this, I am glad to see you've finally accepted that the MOQ is
emergentist, an AHA! metaphysics, and that DQ is unexpectedness, and with this
unexpectedness is the acceptance that "we" are here by "chance", a ratched AHA!.