Yes,
I'd agree to that, with the caveat that I wouldn't like to categorically
state that the intellectual way of thinking about the world is actually
precluded form what we might call the highest-quality levels of patterned
reality.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@cbvnol.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 21 November 2000 14:03
Subject: Re: MD Intellect vs. Aesthetics
> Hi Peter:
>
> Your wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure that I would categorically go along with the notion that
the
> > difference amounts to a completely different thing. I tend to think of
> > "nested patterns", rather like gestalts, and so I would have stated the
> > difference in terms of the aesthetic experience being a 'higher order'
(in
> > terms of complexity) type of pattern-recognition. As I understand it,
you're
> > saying that Quality is of a higher order than patterns, that Quality in
it's
> > purest form is essentially undifferentiated; is my understanding
correct?
>
> Yes. In the SODV paper Pirsig points to Northrup's
> "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum" as being an acceptable
> description of Quality. But, I agree with you that much art
> appreciation is based on recognition of 'higher order' (more
> complex) patterns. Hearing 'Night and Day" played on the piano
> from sheet music is less aesthetically satisfying than listening to
> an Errol Garner jazz rendition. Would you agree that in either case
> the aesthetic experience occupies a higher place in the MOQ than
> the intellectual level?
> Platt
>
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