[MD] "Could have acted differently" v. "the extent to which we perceive DQ"

[david buchanan]

Dan said to Ron and all:

If I understand correctly, Dynamic Quality is free of expectation. It is the new moment freshly dawning, pure experience, no reflection, no static quality entrapments. To ponder on what could have been is a reflection... it isn't real experience. It is an illusion of what is real. To suppose by changing one's actions one can change the outcome is a powerful tool but only by looking forward, not looking back.



dmb says:

I think that's right. In the MOQ, freedom means being attuned and responsive to the immediate flux of life while reflection is a matter of conceptual sorting and sifting after the empirical fact. The MOQ's position isn't going to be illuminated by demanding past conditionals that depend on rewinding the causal chain in some thought experiment. I think Steve has only shown that he's totally confused as to the fundamentals of the MOQ. I mean, he's relying on the MOQ's sworn enemies to explain the MOQ. It's like using the KKK to explain what the NAACP is all about. That only works if you're trying to show, by example, exactly what it's NOT.