hi everyone
i have been told i reek of SOM with my little triangle thought experiment. i
am trying to see why, as i honestly cannot. i am sure it all goes back to
our individual points of view concerning the underlying foundational
agreements we have each formed in our lives with our overall environments.
take mathematics for instance.
it is true the underpinnings of classical mathematics are purely inductive.
and i agree that a mathematics should be compatible with a value driven
universe and therefore it should be non-inductive...instead it should start
by examining reality itself and then constructing a mathematics that is
based on what we see around us, and not what we see on a blackboard or in a
textbook. david deutsch says as much in 'fabric of reality', i believe. but
still it has to rely on infirm assumptions, otherwise it ceases to be
mathematics any longer, doesnt it?
i certainly am not up to constructing such a mathematics myself. i am not
learned enough and i am afraid not Dynamic enough either. thats why i
recommended using Buckminster Fuller math as i am somewhat familar and
conversant in it, but apparently not conversant enough!
perhaps i am wrong, perhaps its all an illusion that i even understand the
first thing about the MOQ, i dont know. i am feeling frustrated and have
been pulling my beard over this feeling of not being able to agree with
others in how i see reality. there are truly times when solipsism dominates
my thoughts. perhaps there really is no way to communicate with another thru
words.
you know, this whole affair with the triangle and its complement arose in
regards to Horse's wanting to add a level 5 to the MOQ. i thought to myself,
why cant he see how beautiful the MOQ is now!? why would he want to add
something to that which is complete already?! and now everyone is talking
like the 5th level is a reality! i am sad about that.
but of course, Pirsig himself talks about evolution in the MOQ and how one
level evolved from another. i tell myself that he was merely misled or didnt
see the consequences of pronoucing evolution. but maybe i am wrong. maybe
evolution as we know it is really occurring like everyone seems to think it
is but me. maybe level 5 IS evolving, and in a few years we will have a
level 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 and so on, into happy infinity, where we will live
happily ever after.
but if that happens, little MOQito, the child of Pirsig, will have been
completely pulled out of shape and will no longer be beautiful. it will be
just another ugly adult, bumbling its way to ever greater levels one rung at
a time.
best wishes,
glove
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