Bo
to paraphrase Pirsig " feeling comes before thinking ", we are aware of
events in our lives before we have had time to process this feeling into a
thought.
Feeling is sensing autonomically, it is not necessarily an emotion, which
themselves arise purely from thoughts.
Therefore your 4th Principle can never be right
Rod
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> Hi Marco and Platt
> In the previous thread I suggested the S/O divide for q-intellect (to
> no great surprise as 3WD said :) A "better than" version of this will
> naturally be: OBJECTIVITY IS BETTER THAN SUBJECTIVITY. And
> really, can this enormous value increment be ignored? Platt is the
> only one who sees it with his
>
>> For the 4th level I suggest:
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>> 4. Better thinking than feeling
>
>> . . . based on Pirsig's criteria for the indispensable intellectual
>> pattern of truth--"logical consistency, agreement with experience, and
>> economy
>> of explanation." Emotions need not apply.
>
> I gladly give credit to Platt for launching this before my own (his
> from 11 Feb.) but hope that he sees the connection with my age
> old campaign for exactly this definition of q-intellect ... among
> other in the Emotion (social) vs Reason (intellectual) form.
> Bo
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