[MD] The hard question.

[MarshaV]

Hi Dan,

I tend to think of 'interplay' as an ever-changing, conditionally co-dependent, impermanent and conceptualized processing in the infinite field of Dynamic Quality.  How does 'interplay' work for you.

Marsha






On May 18, 2012, at 2:14 AM, Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Carl Thames <cthames at centurytel.net> wrote:
>> I don't know how it came up, but recently I stumbled across what's known as
>> "The Hard Question" about consciousness.  Specifically, that question is how
>> consciousness arises from inorganic material.  Our brains and bodies are
>> made up of chemicals, etc. and yet from those inert chemicals we get
>> consciousness, until we die, then we become inorangic material again as we
>> break down through the process of decay.  What would the MOQ have to say
>> about that?  Anybody know?
> 
> Hey Carl
> 
> According to the MOQ consciousness doesn't arise from inorganic
> material... it arises from the Dynamic interplay of all four levels of
> evolutionary existence. Biological patterns of quality (like the
> brain) arise from inorganic patterns. They share little other than an
> evolutionary history... in fact, biological patterns can be seen as at
> odds with inorganic patterns, subsuming them for their own use.
> 
> Social patterns of quality arise from biological patterns. These
> patterns cannot be seen. Unlike inorganic and biological patterns,
> social patterns of quality exist in the mind. Take the President of
> the United States as an example: there is no way to examine President
> Obama and determine that he is the President. The fact that he holds
> office is a social pattern, one with which we are all familiar. But
> there is nothing to his person that indicates he is any different than
> any other man.
> 
> Intellectual patterns of quality arise from social patterns. We are
> all ensconced in the culture that we inhabit. That culture informs our
> ideas of the world. Our response to Dynamic Quality is filtered
> through our ideas, our perceptions of the world as we know it to be.
> In the MOQ Dynamic Quality is seen as synonymous with experience.
> 
> So in answer to your question, it seems clear that we do not become
> inert chemicals when we die... we are inert chemicals to start with.
> Consciousness does not magically imbibe those chemicals with life...
> they are still inert chemicals being made use of by biological
> patterns.
> 
> Does this help answer your question?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Dan
> 
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