Hey again Wim,
One more thing....
WIM
Pirsig wrote nowhere that a new level starts 'in the service of its parent
level'. Even if 'offering freedom to lower levels' with some stretching of
meaning can be rephrased as 'serving lower levels', it can never mean that a
new level starts as a PART of a lower level. You are free to entertain this
idea, but you can't found it in the ideas of Pirsig, I think.
PIRSIG
.[I]ntellect has functions that predate science and philosophy. The
intellect's evolutionary purpose has never been to discover an ultimate
meaning of the universe. That is a relatively recent fad. Its historical
purpose has been to help a society find food, detect danger, and defeat
enemies (p344).
RICK
This seems to indicate that Pirsig believes that the intellectual level, at
least, began as an aid to the social level.
rick
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