Hi Bo and Squad
You wrote:
> But also Magnus "sins" when writing: ...
>
> > Not quite, since the intellect which is prior to the levels is not a part of the
> > level's universe.
>
> This is SOM's MIND-intellect, thinking itself, which "contains it
> all"; the idealist dead end that had Western philosophy stalled
> for centuries until Pirsig came along (which Magnus and
> Jonathan jammed themselves into a while ago). It takes some effort to
> change one's view to Quality's, and I still think that my SOTAQI
> is a SOM-MOQ "transformation". Seeing SO-thinking as the top
> Q-level yet part of the bigger DQ reality solved it all ......for
> me.
I believe you misunderstood me there, or I misunderstood you.
The intellect I talked about is the intellect of the "external
universe", i.e. the intellectual patterns of the computer. The
levels are the levels of the "internal universe", the universe of
the viruses. I wasn't talking idealism.
Magnus
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