DAVE MUDDLES WITH EVERY LEVEL
JONATHAN & MFers
Your report of the-real-life Tarzan, last months emerging/arriving intellect
debate, plus this month's quest for the seeds of a fifth level led me back to
this Pirsigism which I just haven't been able to shake.
> > >Among these patterns is the intellectual pattern that says
> > >there is an external world of things out there which are
> > >independent of intellectual patterns".
> > >
> > >That is one of the highest quality intellectual patterns
> > >there is. And in this highest quality intellectual
> > >pattern, external objects appear historically before
> > >intellectual patterns...
> > >
> > >But this highest quality intellectual pattern itself comes
> > >before the external world, not after, as is commonly presumed by the
> > >materialists.
According to the most currently accepted evolutionary theory all of the stuff
from which everything is made appeared in an instantaneous event billions of
years ago. Under the MoQ that most primary stuff is Quality, nebulous and
undefined. Since that time extremely high speed, simultaneous, continuous,
streams of events have occurred which have left in their wake discernible
patterns of value in this overall field of quality. These patterns have a
stepping stone quality with more complex patterns emerging out of simpler
previous patterns. But can't one say, and isn't Pirsig saying, that the
elemental stuff (Quality) that was necessary to evolve all these patterns was
there from the first instant. So it may well have been that the seeds of
Intellect emerged in the patterns of cosmic dust. Which makes the circular
nature of the above quote go away. And if that is so, the evolving patterns
that we now call humans may have just been the ones fortunate enough to make
the choices necessary for them to evolve into our current four level state.
Which leads to the possiblity, I suppose, that other paths are evolving or may
soon evolve to that crucial intellect breakover point. The fifth level maybe
the emergence of other sentient beings right here or "The Really,Really, Mad
Cow Level"
Possibly mystics can in someway percieve these potentialities? It sure would
make me shrug my shoulders and grin.
DLT
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