Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 03 2003 - 20:14:37 GMT

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    HI Rick,

    >I am arguing from an MoQ perspective from which Dynamic Quality is the
    >preintellectual cutting edge of reality, the source of all
    >things, completely simple and always new (LILA ch9 p133) and from
    >which static patterns emerge in the wake of Dynamic Quality...

    If everything comes from DQ, how do you explain the continuity of the world?
      Why doesn't DQ give us a completely different universe every moment? Is
    there a static component to DQ? One in which trees suddenly appear and I
    always have a new car with a full tank of gas?

    DQ is the extension of static patterns and is not patterned itself, without
    SQ, it can't remember what universe it created one moment ago, so that's why
    I object to it being seen as a God like thing, out ahead of all things
    creating them. Most of the time, morally, all patterns are extended
    continuously from the past into the present and made real, they only change
    when other patterns interact with them and the interactions are themselves
    patterns, usually interacting in expected ways. It is that change which is
    dynamic, but it is usually doing what we expect it to, based on static
    patterns.

    I want to see again what Pirsig writes about patterns containing memory,
    thanks for the reference. Sounds like it might be like what Edwards called
    'abiding habit' or disposition. I think it slips into SOM to think of the
    pattern as containing its own memory.

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