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Mere Quantonics
Frank Schierenberg asked us to tell more about concepts
of Quantonics.
- We decided to share our response to Frank with you.
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- Contents of this letter from Doug to Frank, are self-explanatory.
- Contents are purely Doug's own perceptions
shown here as a way for lay visitors to:
Relate Quantonics to Pirsig's MoQ and the
Quantum Realm.
- Distinguish intuemes of relative and absolute in Quantonics.
- Learn to begin to see truth
as an agent of its own change.
Frank's question:
"I sure would like a short synopsis of Quantonics to
see whether it covers the same area of inquiry I am interested
in. Can you send me something, Doug?"
Email Subject:
Re: The appearance of change in time; Date: Fri,
8 Jan 1999 23:40:49 +0800
The acronyms in the letter:
- DQ Dynamic
Quality
- MoQ Metaphysics
of Quality
- SQ Static
Quality
Subject: |
Re: What Quantonics is
all about. |
Date: |
Sat, 09 Jan 1999 08:03:57
-0500 |
From: |
Doug Renselle
Quantonics, Inc.
Suite 18 #368 1950 East Greyhound Pass
Carmel, INdiana 46033-7730
USA
1-317-THOUGHT |
Organization: |
Quantonics |
To: |
Frank
Schierenberg <FlameProof@mozcom.com> |
Sir,
We appreciate your interest. See below a brief answer to your
question.
Pirsigean mnemonics used in the text:
DQ - Dynamic Quality
MoQ - Metaphysics of Quality
SQ - Static Quality
Quantonics is about a new way of thinking for Millennium III.
Quantonics sees our current Western culture trapped in a paradigm
[ontology] which we might characterize thus:
- our current paradigm is mostly classical (i.e., language,
science, religion...)
- there is an ongoing culture war between absolute truth and
relative truth
- either assumes absolute truth in one assumed global
context,
- or assumes relative truth in any or some ill-defined
context
- our perceptions of absolute truth hinge on an incoherent
subject-object split
- truth may only be assessed absolutely based upon substance
- insubstantial, subjective truth may not be assessed
- our concept of change is incoherent (flow of time)
- our concept of time is incoherent (classical mass, length,
time undefined)
- our concept of reality is closed (classical reality depends
on this)
(for more on the last few items, see our review of Irving Stein's,
'The Concept of Object
as the Foundation of Physics.')
Quantonics wants to (begin the) move to a new paradigm like
this:
- the new paradigm [ontology] is mostly quantonic:
- both assumes a quantum science reality-model
child,
- and assumes a ~Pirsigean philosophy parent
(more highly evolved SQ)
- assumes a philosophy and science partnership
- the new paradigm uses Pirsig's MoQ to unify [and invert]
the subject-object split under SQ
- change (flux) is absolute; change is Pirsig's DQ
- change creates value, both static value (SQ) and dynamic
value (DQ)
- truth is relative to locally-defined context
- mass, length, time are now defined: m, l, t, are functions
of flux [btw - gravity too!]
- m = f(flux) - rate of flux is a proxy for mass
- l = f(flux) - wavelength of flux is a proxy for length
- t = f(flux) - any count of flux periods is a proxy for time
- reality is open
The new way of thinking for Millennium III distinguishes itself
via its practitioners understanding and teaching the differences
you see in the two lists above.
The above is vastly oversimplified, but it can be simpler even:
Classical paradigm: Truth reigns. :( "Status quo is the way
to go." )
Quantonic paradigm: Change reigns. ( i.e., "Flux is crux!" :)
The starting assumptions, about 2500 years ago, by the Greek
philosophers depended upon that single, simple, classical edict
[i.e., "Truth reigns."]. Those starting assumptions
all derive from that edict. They gave us the classical reality-model
we in Western culture presume today. (See Pirsig's, 'The
Birth of SOM,' on our site.)
The Quantonic axiom [ i.e., "Flux is crux!"] fits
what we know about quantum reality today. Pirsig's MoQ philosophy
fits it too. That is our benchmark for the goodness of the Quantonic
paradigm for Millennium III.
If we may be of further assistance, please do not hesitate
to let us know.
Many truths to you,
- Doug.
"Truth is always a DQ-changeable Static Pattern of Value."
- DQ: Dynamic Quality
- Doug Renselle, July 20, 1998.
Doug Renselle
Quantonics, Inc.
Suite 18 #368 1950 East Greyhound Pass
Carmel, INdiana 46033-7730
USA
1-317-THOUGHT
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