[MD] Creative Freedom in Jazz

[MarshaV]

Greetings Dan,


On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:03 AM, Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Joseph  Maurer <jhmau at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Hi Dan and All,
>> 
>> IMHO It is not useful to describe Dynamic Quality as the "source of all
>> things, completely simple and always new."  DQ is a metaphysical term,
>> described as being indefinable experience.
> 
> Dan:
> 
> Hi Joe!
> It is always a pleasure to hear from you... thank you for writing!
> 
> Well, I am merely quoting the author of the MOQ here:
> 
> "Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, the
> source of all things, completely simple and always new." [Lila]
> 
> So if this isn't useful I am unsure what part of the MOQ is useful.
> This seems like the foundation of it all. I get the feeling a number
> of contributors here believe we all should just make it up as we go
> along.
> 
> I cannot help but wonder: how useful is that? I am operating under the
> (perhaps mistaken) assumption that we are here to discuss Robert
> Pirsig's work and in particular the MOQ as described in Lila... are we
> not?
> 
>> 
>> The experience of emotions seems to be a proper analogy for DQ.  I do not
>> see emotions as the "source of all things, completely simple and always
>> new."  Intellectual activity seems to be a higher reality.
> 
> Dan:
> I believe the MOQ classifies emotions as biological activity. So yes,
> you are right... emotions are not the source of all things.
> 
>> 
>> Emotions may have been present when the founding fathers created the
>> constitution, but intellectual activity describes the results.  DQ emotions
>> are subject to intellectual activity as a lower level to a higher level as
>> the delegates are to the constitution.  DQ emotions as perceptions evolve
>> into DQ/SQ intellectual conceptions.  Evolution is alive and well.
> 
> Dan:
> If emotions are the intelligence of biological responses then they are
> apart and separate from the intelligence of the mind. When I fall in
> love I am completely irrational. I walk around with a silly grin on my
> face for no reason at all. When I am close to her though my body
> responds in ways my mind cannot fathom. I revel in her scent, her
> touch, her taste; the sound of her voice is like music.
> 
> So I know what love is but I cannot describe it any more than I can
> describe the taste of an apple. It is all very mysterious and yet so
> familiar.
> 

Wow!  Your making it up as you go along is amazing... 


Thank you.


Marsha 




> But I am not telling you anything that you do not already know...
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Dan
> 
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