Hey again Keith,
First off, Erin is right in pointing out that those activities you named all
require memory... "Static Quality...emerges in the wake of Dynamic
Quality... It always contains a component of memory (LILA p133).
KEITH:
does DQ being pre-intellectual mean that all our experience is
post-intellectual?
RICK:
Yes, it does.
Remember Keith, 'you' as an entity (the 'our' in 'our experience') is a
post-intellectual deduction to begin with. Pre-intellectually, there is no
'you', there is only Quality, and as the man says....
PIRSIG:
"Quality... is the event at which the subject becomes aware of the object.
And because without objects there can be no subject - because the objects
create the subject's awareness of himself... ...Quality is not just the
result of a collision between subject and object. The very existence of
subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event (ZMM p215)."
RICK:
It is only in the post-Intellectual that there exists a 'you' that is
separate from and experiencing other 'things'. Pre-intellectually, there
would be no 'you' to have any 'undivided experience'. I know this is a
difficult perceptual shift to make, but I assure you, the MOQ (as described
by Pirsig) can't be properly understood without it.
rick
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