From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 19:33:03 BST
Ham,
[Ham said] Since I believe that finite things are "phenomenal" (i.e,
constructs of
> intellection), the physical reality
> I have postulated is entirely subjective. This concept could be construed
> as solipsism, except for the
> universality of finite perception which I attribute to a cosmic
"blueprint"
> or "spectrum" that is innate
> to the negational (creative) mode of Essence. It is perhaps this
blueprint,
> rather than Value, that best
> represents the DQ posited by Pirsig.
[Scott:] I think I agree with this (except the last bit), but if the cosmic
"blueprint" is universal, then it serves to make finite things in part
non-subjective. The physical characteristics are supplied by the
organization of the subject, but that organization is itself part of the
cosmic blueprint. So your phenomena of color, shape, etc. may not be mine,
but we are seeing the same things, and if we measure them we will get the
same numbers.
This cosmic blueprint, though cannot be the DQ posited by Pirsig, since the
former has structure, while the latter doesn't. By the way, Rupert
Sheldrake's morphogenetic forms sound to me like what you are referring to
as cosmic blueprint.
- Scott
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