Re: MD Where does quality reside?

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 16:51:56 GMT

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    Mark,

    > msh says:
    > What I've read in LILA is that individuals and the levels evolve, or
    > fail to evolve (latch), through individual apprehension, or
    > misapprehension, of Quality. Isn't this the sense of creation he's
    > talking about? He doesn't mean, does he, that Quality creates
    > individuals in the way a painter chooses paints and brushes to create
    > a painting? Or in the way God is sometimes said to have created the
    > heavens and the earth?

    [Scott:] I think Pirsig avoids this issue. He wants to totalize Quality,
    but does not draw out the implications. What was apprehending value before
    there was consciousness? My answer, of course, is nothing, that to totalize
    Quality is to totalize consciousness.

    - Scott

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