Re: MD A bit of reasoning

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 22:32:31 BST

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    Hi Mel, Scott:

    > Beauty, as you say is intellectual, but it is a judgement of something that
    > is now past, something not on the present cusp of being.

    Pirsig disagrees. From SODV: "The aesthetic nature of the Conceptually
    Unknown is a point of connection between the arts and sciences. What
    relates science to the arts is that science explores the Conceptually
    unknown to develop a theory that will cover measurable patterns emerging
    from the unknown. The arts explore the Conceptually Unknown in other ways
    to create patterns of such as music, literature, painting that reveal the
    Dynamic Quality that produced them."

    In other words, our experience of the present cusp of being, Dynamic
    Quality, the Conceptually Unknown, is aesthetic. It becomes intellectual
    only after patterns are formed. But, as physicists and mathematicians
    know, patterns thus formed can, by their beauty, reveal the Dynamic
    Quality that produced them.

    Best,
    Platt

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