[MD] Emotions revisited

[mark_maxwell at talktalk.net]

Squonk to Andre:
'..RMP's assertion that economic activity occurs without emotion is, i
would vouch, nonsense.

In short, economics is the sum total of emotional responses to
betting; it's gambling in order to become wealthy.
If that isn't an emotionally driven activity then i am not sure what is.

Andre:
Hi Squonk, I think that the MoQ would say that the economy is 'driven'
by dynamic quality. An outline of this argument can be found in Ch.17
of Lila.

Once again you are reducing Quality to biology and I think this
undervalues and misrepresents the MoQ.

But, of course, you are welcome to your understanding.

Hi Andre,
I'm not sure if i am reducing quality to biology.
What i am asserting is that economic activity is a Human endeavour, and as such it concerns those values which fundamentally
concern Humans, that is to say, health and power.
Health because, unless one grows ones own food, the economic structures are required to ensure food is available.
Power, because wealth is an index of social status for the naked ape - the pecking order.
Health and power are felt keenly as emotional satisfactions or wants.


Regarding emotions and quality: I've speculated that DQ/quality is experienced in emotional analogues;
I infer the existence of my computer screen from visual stimulus, but the VDU i assume to be there isn't the VDU itself.
By analogy, we experience emotional states that may correspond in some sense to DQ/quality, but the emotions are not
DQ/q itself.
This does not undermine the speculation and/or indirect evidence for Universal quality.
But it does challenge the suggestion that DQ/quality is directly experienced.
That DQ is the same for everyone can not be proved - even RMP's PR man had to, perhaps rather grudgingly, state as much.


I think you are being a little unfair when you suggest i am reducing quality to biology Andre me old mucker.
All the best,
squonk