In a message dated 11/3/98 12:28:50 PM Pacific Standard Time,
rmb29@cornell.edu writes:
<< Jonathan wrote "...This is not to say that Pirsig's 4
>levels are not real. The 7 colours of the rainbow we identify are
>perectly real, though we could equally well make an alternative division
>of the spectrum into 5 or 8 colours."
>I think Pirsig would agree with this and I refer you to ZMM Chapter 14---
>"Molecules are molecules. They don't have any ethical codes to follow
>except those that people give them."
>
Exactly - its the subjective we put on the objective.
But he does note that there will be some high value/low value ramifications of
these cultural differences. Somewhere he discusses how some American Indian
cultures do not distinguish blue and green as different colors and how some
eskimos have many (twenty?) different words for snow. It may be very minor in
most cases, but if you live in the Arctic Circle it may be life and death
(thin ice/thick ice over freezing water).
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