[MD] Why William James?

[Jan-Anders Andersson]

 Nice piece of change, Marsha

JanAnders

7 mar 2013 kl. 08:23 skrev MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>:

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> dmb,
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> On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:42 PM, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Static patterns are static and they're patterned no matter how many times she [Marsha] uses the phrase "ever-changing static patterns". In a hundred years, that will still be a stupid thing to say.
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> If putting that on quotes was to signify it was a phrase I used, you are misrepresenting for a reason I cannot fathom.  My explanation/definition of static patterns of value is:  
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> -- Static patterns of value are repetitive processes, conditionally co-dependent, impermanent and ever-changing, that pragmatically tend to persist and change within a stable, predictable pattern.  Within the MoQ, these patterns are morally categorized into a four-level, evolutionary, hierarchical structure:  inorganic, biological, social and intellectual. Static quality exists in stable patterns relative to other patterns:  patterns depend upon ( exist relative to) innumerable causes and conditions (patterns), depend upon (exist relative to) parts and the collection of parts (patterns), depend upon (exist relative to) conceptual designation (patterns). Patterns have no independent, inherent existence.  Further, these patterns pragmatically exist relative to an individual's static pattern of life history. -- 
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> And I use the term 'ever-changing' because patterns of value are both static AND ever-changing as I have explained many times.    Each time a pattern momentarily interacts with consciousness it is different than the time before, and if you have an experience with a pattern in any other way than as an interaction with consciousness, please explain how that happens.  A little patience and introspection would help you see this; that's _see_ as in insight.  But maybe like James you will meet a gumption trap and give up, and stay self-involved with your static rambling thoughts.  And they will forever have you.  My explanation/definition is meant to point as far away from 'inherently existing' as possible.  I think that that is most important.  That static patterns of value are ever-changing agrees with my experience, which not confused with the static representation of words on a page.  
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> Marsha 
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