[MD] Free Will

[MarshaV]

Hello Mark, 

On Apr 28, 2011, at 1:43 AM, 118 wrote:

> 
>> Marsha:
>> I'm sticking with DQ as "indivisible, undefinable and unknowable".  -  I do
>> think one should be able to explain how to recognize an intellectual
>> static pattern of value.  To assign 'science' as an intellectual pattern
>> explains nothing.  'Science' and 'zero,'  are names, not patterns.
>> 
> [Mark]
> OK
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha"
>> "providing guidance' sounds like 'intention.'   What I mean by function is
>> more about how it behaves: abstracts, isolates, reifies to know and manipulate.
> 
> [Mark]
> Yeah, that is why I have difficulty ascribing function to DQ.  We can
> certainly see how the intellectual level behaves in hind-sight.  I
> don't think that level abstracts, it is abstraction.
> 
> How about if we analogize the intellectual level to a movie on the
> screen.  This process has several parts.  The movie (in days of old)
> is on a film which has light passed through it, the light carries the
> information and hits a screen where what was once light is now broken
> up into all sorts of static patterns.  Which part do you think could
> be the intellectual level?


Marsha:
Most generally, the intellectual level would be the part that is opposite-from-non-(intellectual level).  And your analogy and my response signals the end of further discussion.  

 
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