From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 01:28:13 GMT
Platt and y'all:
DMB says:
I just don't see it. These quotes might be straitforward, but they do not
speak to the issue of Lila's characteristics. They only tell us about how
the intellectual level has grown and evoloved away from social purposes.
Show me a quote where Pirsig says that "all humans have intellect", as you
put it, and I will eat my computer.
Pirsig:
"Within this evolutionary relationship it is possible to see that intellect
has functions that predate science and philosophy. The intellect's
evolutionary purpose has never been to discover an ultimate meaning of
the universe. That Is a relatively recent fad. Its historical purpose has
been to help a society find food, detect danger, and defeat enemies. It
can do this well or poorly, depending on the concepts it invents for this
purpose.
Pirsig:
"The cells Dynamically invented animals to preserve and improve their
situation. The animals Dynamically invented societies, and societies
Dynamically invented intellectual knowledge for the same reasons.
Therefore, to the question, "What is the purpose of all this intellectual
knowledge?" the Metaphysics of Quality answers, "The fundamental
purpose of knowledge is to Dynamically improve and preserve society."
Knowledge has grown away from this historic purpose and become an
end in itself just as society has grown away from its original purpose of
preserving physical human beings and become an end in itself, and this
growing away from original purposes toward greater Quality is a moral
growth. But those original purposes are still there. And when things get
lost and go adrift it is useful to remember that point of departure."
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