[MD] Nagasena & King Milinda by Mark Siderits

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi MarshaV,

The monkey on my back is logic!  Existence, Sight, Sound, Touch are all
squirrely in my vision.  I like evolution as a model for logic, but how to
conceptualize logic is a problem chicken or egg?

Physics scratches the surface but makes metaphysics squirm.  Evolution could
be a format, triggers for resolution.  If so metaphysics is necessary for
Physics.  Mathematics, with its strict logic, is no format for indefinable
DQ.

Joe   


On 12/27/11 11:15 PM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

> 
Hi Joe,

I have read that karma is the Buddhism’s scientific explanation of
> evolution.  I believe that RMP has suggested a relationship between karma and
> static patterns: 

"The MOQ sees the wheel of karma as attached to a cart that
> is going somewhere - from quantum forces through inorganic forces and
> biological patterns and social patterns to the intellectual patterns that
> perceive the quantum forces...". (RMP quote, 'MoQ Textbook')

The four levels
> of static patterns - inorganic, biological, social, & intellectual - improves
> Buddhism's "scientific explanation".  It expands and improves Western
> science's explanation of evolution too.  


Marsha 








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On Dec 27, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Joseph  Maurer <jhmau at comcast.net>
> wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> 
> Metaphysics is empty sound, a trigger!  Pirsig with
> DQ/SQ suggested that
> metaphysics is a format, not a sound.  There has to be
> a trigger for
> concepts.  It becomes even more weird when the trigger
> embraces indefinable
> evolving reality and memory.  No wonder metaphysics is
> a tough slog.
> 
> There is a trigger for the color purple etc.  For myself I
> am content to
> place the triggers in an order in existence, evolution.  For
> evolution one
> size existence does not fit all.
> 
> Joe 
> 
> 
> On 12/26/11
> 11:19 PM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> This story was not from a
> Buddhist text.  The term 'empty' in "empty sound"
>> did not represent the
> Buddhist's Emptiness.  Metaphysics fulfills a certain
>> interest so I would
> consider it more than "empty sound". 
> 
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