[MD] Ever-Changing Static Values!!?

[MarshaV]

Greetings Horse,

I could not say how change happens anymore than I can say how time or space happen.  And if you want to incapsulate all your different motorcycle experiences into one concept identified as 'motorcycle' - maybe that is your habit - then that's what you'll do.  And further, if you want to encapsulate all the unique events in your life into one concept labeled 'me', well, that would be the conventional approach to take.  I don't get the reference to magic vs. metaphysics.  I understand metaphysics to represent the investigation into 'what do we know' and 'how do we know it'. 


Marsha 


On Apr 1, 2013, at 7:32 AM, Horse <horse at darkstar.uk.net> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> What I fail to understand about static patterns that are 'ever-changing' is the process by which they change.
> 
> An example:
> When I was about 18 years old I bought a BSA Starfire motorcycle. It was an awful heap of crap and I spent more time fixing it than I did riding it!
> I now own a Moto-Guzzi T3 California which I have spent more time riding than repairing.
> In between I have owned a multitude of motorcycles.
> Am I to take the view that my Starfire has, somehow, changed (in effect, morphed) into my T3 - or, as is more likely, that over the years I have owned different motorcycles, starting with a Starfire and ending up, now, with a T3?
> Each of them is a set of static patterns that equate to motorcycles (more or less!!!) but each one has been a different set of patterns.
> 
> In the same way, all other static patterns in my life, from inorganic to intellectual, relate to my experience but are unique and discrete. They relate to my experience in that I have experienced and, having experienced, a new set of static patterns then emerges from that experience. Each new set of patterns are unique but related to each other by way of my experience - not just an initial set of patterns changing/morphing from one form to another.
> That would have to be classed as magic, not Metaphysics!
> 
> Horse
> 
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