[MD] The other side of Value

[Ham Priday]

Mark --

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM,  "118" <ununoctiums at gmail.com> asked:

> Ham, would you say the our "attraction" to the absolute
> source can be considered to be spacio-temporal perception?
> That is, it involves movement?

I wouldn't rule it out, but I personally don't see physical dimensions as an 
"attractive" value -- unless of course we're focused on pulchritude or the 
structural design of nature.  Objective (experiential) reality is only a 
representational projection of the affinity or attraction of the sensible 
agent for the Absolute.  As such it manifests the subjective agent's 
particular value orientation at the time of the experience, rather than pure 
or undifferentiated Value.  For that we would have to dismiss the 
spacio-temporal aspect and measure the whole of an individual's life 
experience (what I call the subjective 'value-complement").

As an analogy, consider the value you realize while reading an engrossing 
novel.  Each page presents new situations which you react to valuistically 
in different ways.  What you feel emotionally and respond to intellectually 
is constantly changing as you follow the story.  But once you have finished 
the book, its "net value" is established and it thereafter represents the 
book's overall value for you.

The novel 'in process' for each of us is our own life-experience.  Only when 
it is completed can we determine our essential value-complement.  And that 
is metaphysically significant because it's what we "take with us" from this 
dimensional existence.

At least, that's my belief.

And thanks for asking,
Ham