From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Aug 06 2004 - 13:28:31 BST
Hi Paul, Scott,
> Paul:
> Quality *is* perception in LILA as it was in ZMM.
If Quality is perception and Quality is reality, then perception is
reality. Either my logic is bad or this is old fashioned Berkeley
idealism.
> The bit that people
> struggle with is that the MOQ denies that there must be a perceiver and a
> perceived that can be said to exist separately prior to perception. In
> LILA, this "conceptually unknown" cutting edge of reality becomes Dynamic
> Quality and the perceiver and perceived are created, by perception, in the
> form of static patterns.
It's no mystery why people struggle with the idea that perception requires
no pre-existing perceiver or perceived. It violates the meaning of
perception. It's also baffling when one realizes that Pirsig's perceptions
were the basis for his metaphysics that denies the prerequisite of human
perceptions. Further, Pirsig says we can never know ultimate reality (the
conceptually unknown). But that's saying we know something about it.
It seems Pirsig violates one of his own tests of truth --logical
consistency. But then again, logic always leads to an infinite black hole
with turtles all the way down.
Best,
Platt
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