From: Michael Hamilton (thethemichael@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 13:14:43 BST
A belated hello to you all! (particularly to Ham)
The promised analysis is still a long way off, although some of my thoughts
about the interaction between dynamic and static Quality feature in my post
"Static Latching..." I continue to find the DQ/SQ split an excellent tool
for describing and exploring many, many aspects of reality. I still don't
have much to say about the paradoxical nature of the split, although after
reading your comments I suspect that the confusing aspect of it can be
reduced by stopping this placing of DQ "above" SQ. I believe that Pirsig's
capitalisation of Dynamic quality stems from its mystical, indefinable
nature (it's resemblance to capitalised entities such as God/Tao/the
Abolute), rather than any increased importance of DQ in relation to SQ. For
the time being, I will think of DQ and SQ as co-creaters, interacting to
bring reality (i.e. Quality, the whole) to where it is now. As the concept
of static latching suggests, dynamic evolution is made possible only by
static quality.
This leaves me with only one thing to attend to: Ham - your question about
my name! Sorry to say, there's very little chance of us being closely
related, because Hamilton was the name my grandfather (a Jew) assumed when
he emigrated from Nazi Germany. To be quite honest, I find his original
name, Vitebski, which I would have inherited, a lot more interesting!
Regards,
Mike
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