horse wrote:
Another thing that seems to be creeping in at the moment with some members
is the re-
emergence of objectivity and subjectivity. Er.... excuse me? I was under the
impression that
MoQ undermines S/O as a primary view.
Horse............
'fraid I have to hold my hand up to that one. But the point is that we tend
to perceive with the equipment we have evolved with; jut because a concept
is agreed as outdated /superceded, it doesn't mean it just goes away.
(Popper again, on the evolution of ideas). For example, whilst most
scientists will readily admit that Newtonian physics is not the best
description of the physical universe, it nevertheless permeates their
thinking in myriad, unconsidered, ways.
And there are sound reasons for using an inaccurate-but computationally
inexpensive hypothesis rather than an accurate-but-unwieldy new, hypothesis
which might have all sorts of bugs in it. It's a bit like the comparison
between ready reckoning and precise calculations using appropriate
instruments.both ways have their day, and it is no coincidence that sentient
life as we know it evolved to utilise the former, first of all.
The point I'm making here is that, just because readers of Pirsig (and
others) agree that the subjective / objective dualism may well impede
progress toward better understanding of our universe, that is not to say we
can banish it completely overnight. It's embedded in our language, our
conceptual lexicon (at quite a primitive level) and the general values of
the societies in which we live. So, as with the story of evolution, the new
adaptation needs to get along with the old. That was all I was trying to
say.
cheers,
ppl
Peter Lennox
Hardwick House
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e-mail: peter@lennox01.freeserve.co.uk
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