[MD] Creative Freedom

[MarshaV]

Hi David,


On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:48 AM, David Harding <davidjharding at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> 
>> I find holding PATTERNS as hypothetical far more elegant.  
> 
> It's funny that you use 'elegance' to justify your view that 'patterns as hypothetical' is the better idea.
> 
> It's almost as if you agree with me that true ideas are beautiful but then deny ever thinking so.
> 
> How intriguing.
> 
> -David.


"There are many sets of intellectual reality in existence and we can perceive some to have more quality than others, but that we do so is, in part, the result of our history and current patterns of values."
     (RMP, 'LILA', chapter 8)

Intriguing?  High value intellectual patterns may be judged elegant without ever needing to assign the term 'truth'.  Please keep in mind that the MoQ allows for more than your intellectual reality.  I find it more useful to consider objects of knowledge (stuff in the encyclopedia) _patterns_ rather than truths.  And I find it of higher value (more useful) to consider patterns as hypothetical for reasons that once one accepts the MoQ's fundamental principal that the world is nothing but Value, then 'expanded rationality' occurs when an individual transforms the natural tendency to reify self and world into the natural tendency to hold all static patterns of value to be hypothetical (supposed but not necessarily real or true.)  Understanding static (patterned) value as hypothetical acknowledges the incompleteness of what we know and makes room for additional inquiry with new possibilities; it promotes an attitude of fearless curiosity: gumption.  It moves one away from thinking of entities as existing inherently and existing independent of consciousness.  



Marsha