[MD] DQ/sq as WATER/ice

[MarshaV]

Hi Dan,

On Mar 30, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> For me, this is a good analogy for 'the fundamental nature of static
>> quality is Dynamic Quality.
> 
> Hi Marsha
> 
> I guess I don't see where you're going with this. Water isn't distinct from
> ice. Water IS ice. It is simply in a solid state rather than a liquid.
> Inorganic patterns like water change structure according to the ambient
> surroundings. Think iron: its melting point is much higher than water. But
> it is still iron in either state.
> 
> On the other hand, static quality is distinct from Dynamic Quality by
> definition. Static quality emerges from Dynamic Quality. To say 'the
> fundamental nature of static quality is Dynamic Quality' seems confusing
> rather than enlightening, in my opinion. Isn't the fundamental nature of
> static quality its definition?

No, for me, the fundamental nature of static quality (determinate) IS Dynamic Quality (indeterminate), and I do not find that confusing at all.  I find this quote to be a good analogy.  

Thanks for your opinion.
 
 
Marsha 
 
 





>> "Water is distinct from ice, but in the ice cube it is present: not as a
>> fly might be trapped there, but _in the very ice_.  And yet when the ice
>> cube is gone, the water remains.  Although we see water as ice, we do so
>> not because it is there separately, to be seen from behind or apart from
>> the cube."
>> 
>>        (Iain McGilchrist, 'The MASTER and his EMISSARY:
>>               The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World', p.
>> 452).
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha
> Thank you,
> 
> Dan
> 
>