Re: MD Quantitative & Qualitative Genesis

From: rich pretti (richpretti@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 01 1999 - 16:43:37 BST


Curious Julie:

>My question on the above is: what do you mean by "chemical events
>are ethical?" do you mean that there is no such thing as the mind, >that
>mind is a biological artifact of chemical operations in the >structure of
>the brain?

  Pirsig states that "not just life, but everything, is an ethical
activity." This is the answer to the penultimate philosophical question:
"just why exactly did life evolve?" - it was better than not to.

  As for the mind - being the combination of the social and intellectual
levels manifested in each unique individual - yes, it exists. Yes, it grows
from the bio-chemical events in the brain.

Rich

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