Hi Elephant:
You asked: Why is it essential to the MOQ that atoms be aware?
If values are reality as Pirsig claims, and if evolution was value-driven
as he also claims, then awareness of value must have appeared
concurrent or immediately after the Big Bang. Otherwise, nothing
further would have occurred.
If you wish, you may say atoms “experience,” or atoms “prefer” or
atoms “value.” (Instead of A causes B, B values precondition A.)
Regardless of your choice of words, that atoms “respond” to the
creative force of Dynamic Quality is evident in Chapter 11 of Lila where
Pirsig describes the beginning of life.
Or to put it another way: a reality that consists solely of values (as
Pirsig claims) presupposes choice which in turn presupposes
awareness. Without choice, the concept of values is meaningless.
There’s no point for Pirsig to describe Dynamic Quality as a “vague
sense of betterness” if one is powerless to choose the better way.
I’ve a question? Are atoms aware in Plato’s Good? If not, how far down
the chain of being does awareness go?
Platt
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