Hi Erin, Platt & all. I'm responding to a post dated 6/21/02 from Platt.
Platt: > Hi Erin:
>
> > With all this talk about consciousness I just have to throw in
> > this part of "Jitterbug Perfume" by Robbins (one of my favorite books
> > of all time)
> > Makes you think about the title "Lila" again (known for having
> > a strong scent wasn't it?)
>
> I very much enjoyed the excerpt from 'Jitterbug Perfume.' Thanks for
> taking the trouble to share it with us. I was particularly struck by the
> following passages:
>
> > Flowers have always lived in an information technology.
> > Flowers gather information all day. At night they process it. This is
> > called photosynthesis.
>
> > Trees communicate (as when attacked by insects)so that another tree can
> > manufacture a chemical that will repel the bug. The info is likely to be
> > broadcasted in aroma. Another possibility is that between the trees a
kind
> > of telepathy is involved.
>
> The consciousess-like activities of plants support my belief that
> 'experience' is not something that magically emerges from the structural
> complexity of neurons in the brain as many scientists like to tell us, but
> rather that both animals and plants 'tap into' a 'field' of universal
> 'experience' and take from it the attributes (such as information
> processing) they need to survive. If one thinks of this 'field' as
consisting
> of value patterns, the MOQ fits right in.
>
> In any case, thanks for posting the excerpt.
>
> Platt
Gary's response: I agree. "Consciousess-like activites....not something
magically emerges..." This is why Wilber's books (A brief History of
Everything or Sex, Ecology, Evolution) are so important. 'Conscious-like' &
'experience' are attributes of all things on all levels. All things have
the Interior aspect of reacting to their environment. It is not 'magic'
but it is and does emerge from the Quality based structure of their
inorganic and organic matter. The level of Intellect of Pirsig is the
Internal level of Humans. All things, under Wilber's system has an Internal
level/aspect/nature. The level of Intellect emerges out of the physical
structure of our biology. But that level can not be reduced to merely and
solely the aspects & workings of the External nature of our biology alone.
Bye,
Gary
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