From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 02:16:11 GMT
Scott said:
I see no justification on Pirsig's part for calling the basis for choice
among possible conventions "preintellectual". Better, I think, to call it
Creative Intellect, or something along those lines.
dmb wonders why this doesn't count as, at least, SOME justification for
calling it "pre-intellectual"...
dmb had posted:
"Pure experience cannot be called either physical or psychical: it logically
precedes this distinction." (Lila, 29)
"He thought it was probably the light that infants see when their world is
still fresh and whole, before consciousness differentiates it into
patterns." (Lila, 26)
The idea here is that immediate reality, the experience we have before
thoughts of subjects and objects or anything else emerges, is undivided. And
its not that subject/object thinking itself prevents us from seeing this. It
doesn't matter how well such things evolve, division is an inherent part of
language and thought as such. Any metaphysics will divide the undivided and
there's no getting around it.
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