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I think this is what pirsig was describing on pg 386- seeing is not believing.
Believing is seeing. The mind shuts out all the information that didn't fit
with what we were expecting to see. I think the essence extraction is based on
what we were expecting to extract.
>
>>according to the quantum perspective you could
>> say that the probality of collapse in that answer is
>>much higher than a collapse in the other one: We
>>choose the answer that is in our focus...
>> Does that make some sense to anyone?
>I think so. I call it "essence extraction." We pick
>and choose the various essences of an environment to
>build up a drama in our life to give it meaning. We
>fear giving up this process in order to avoid lack of
>meaning. If we stopped and were "awash" in Dynamic
>Quality, there would be no meaning but there would be
>the "Good." We need the "courage to be", to let go of
>the static process of essence extraction that builds
>up a self.
>
>Angus
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