[MD] Democritus and MoQ

[Jan-Anders]

Hi Mark

I think the difference between the social level and the intellectual 
level is based on the existence of a distance upon the social level 
which is the place where intellectual concepts live. Thruths, myths, 
tales and questions. In this world where humanity look at itself and 
perform its choices, sometimes by chance and sometimes by necessity, 
like sailing. The conscious state of the intellectual mind opens doors 
for other causes than chance and necessity, like stupidity, greed or 
curiosity. The most interesting cause to give fruit to something is the 
cause of Art, rta, Areté. Somewhere between chance and necessity.

A child can build a tower of blocks, it is more than something hapening 
just out of chance, it will fall in the end by necessity as no tower can 
grow to the sky. The balancing act is the art, rta, areté.

JA

moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org wrote 2011-01-21 20.17:
> "Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"
>
> is the one I wanted to discuss.  Based in Democritus' insight into the
> nature of physics, perhaps he had insight into MoQ.
>
> In this quote, we have split reality into chance and necessity which
> is another knife division of reality like the dynamic/static split.
> We have a pretty good analogy for what chance is, and have discussed
> that quite a bit in this forum.  I do not want to belabor that side of
> the split, but want to look into Necessity.  I have posted what I call
> Intent.  This can be loosely translated as will or even desire.  This
> Intent is all we have when we are first introduced to this world, from
> a personal level.  We of course also have our physical bodies and all
> that happens within them.  Intent could also be translated as
> necessity.  So, what is necessity?  I suppose it could be "that which
> we have to do".  Why is there something that we have to do?  Well,
> this is the connection with Intent.  It is something that we come
> with.  A tree is born to become a tree, that is its necessity.
>
> If we were to relegate the world of chance to that of static quality,
> and consider Necessity to be the dynamic aspect of Quality, then it
> may be possible to begin creating analogies of Dynamic Quality based
> on such a premise.  From purely the human point of view, each level
> could be labeled with its own Intent.  This has actually been done by
> some in the forum already when they state that the organic level does
> what the organic level is supposed to do.  Or put another way, each
> level exists for itself, that is its intent.  It uses static quality
> to perform such necessary functions.
>
> In addition to placing some more descriptive terms into MoQ, it may
> also serve to better encompass our place in such a thing.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>