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

[John Carl]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:28 AM, <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bo, Mark, All:
>
> Seems to me that by saying the universe emerged with Quality that
> you've ducked the question, "Why did the universe emerge?"  Was it,
> "Oops, suddenly a universe appeared" as Arlo believes?



Thanks goodness it didn't stop with oops!  It evolved  through the whole
cycle and ended up with ahhhh.... and the existence of ahhhh... is the
self-evidence of the fundamental existence of Quality as a driving force.




>
> There's no reason to spooked by anyone's charges of theism. The
> creative power of Quality can be viewed as a perfectly natural
> phenomenon. Just because it may not fall into the scientist's definition of
> natural -- namely that which can be measured and/or reproduced by
> experiment -- doesn't mean Quality is a God of religious faith. It could
> simply be an intrinsic principle of rightness.
>


Right.  Quality is not God.  Quality is bigger than God.  Quality creates
Gods.

If nobody thought God was a good idea, there wouldn't be one.


Platt continues]

Let's not be limited in our thinking by the scientific SOM worldview. Isn't

> that the underlying message of the MOQ? Or as Hamlet put it, "There
> are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
> philosophy."
>

Well said.  I'm looking forward to the rest of this thread.