Hi Marco:
Welcome back. It's been too long since we've heard from you. You must
have had "better" things to do, like work for a living. (-:
> . . . let me offer a simple experiment you all can
> perform. Probably it can't confirm the whole theory, but I think it helps.
> [my source is "Genes, Peoples and Languages" by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza].
> You just need a pack of cards.
Oh, oh. Suddenly we have a "designed" pack of cards to begin with.
Sucks the wind right out of the experiment demonstrating the creative
power of "luck" if you ask me, just like those intelligently designed
computer programs that purport to show how Darwinian evolution works.
Designed experiments to prove evolution isn't designed are self-
contradictory.
>On this, I think it's impossible to state
> that Pirsig supports teleolology: if the end -Quality- is undefined, there
> is no teleology. Fittest or luckiest, in both cases DQ operates within
> nature toward the indefinable better.
"Toward the indefinable better" sounds like "purpose" to me. Then we
have Pirsig's own words:
"We see he's (a scientist) conducting his experiments for exactly the
same purpose as the subatomic forces had when they first began to
create him billions of years ago." (11)
"The higher level can often be see to be in opposition to the lower level,
dominating it, controlling it for its own purposes." (12)
"Just as biology exploits substance for its own purposes, so does this
social pattern called a city exploit biology for its own purposes." (17)
And the "killer" quote:
"Dharma is Quality itself, the principle of "rightness" which gives
structure and purpose to the evolution of all life and to the evolving
understanding of the universe which life has created." (30)
Finally as you may recall. I seek out the paradoxes because I think
they, like beauty and laughter, get close to fire of truth. So I wonder
what's the purpose in believing the universe has no purpose?
Now aren't you glad to be back again? (-:
Platt
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