Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 03:25:26 GMT

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    Rick,

    I would add to the following (which I agree with)

    >
    > RICK
    > In the MoQ, static quality is the differences, correlations and
    > repetitive patterns that we observe in reality (LILA ch9 p 137). Your
    > problem is that you think "reality is patterns". But Dynamic Quality and
    > Static Quality are both *aspects of reality* that are derived from
    empircal
    > experience. They are the aspects of reality that Phaedrus believed to be
    > the "fundemental division of the world (LILA ch9 p138)". Static patterns
    of
    > value are "the universe of distiguishable things (LILA ch9 p138)". But
    they
    > are not reality themselves. They are the distiguishable aspects of
    reality
    > that obviously must *follow* the Dynamic Quality from which they are
    > distinguished.

    that another way of recognizing DQ is in the fact of awareness of static
    patterns. In other words, DQ is not -- or not just -- some divine force that
    leaves static patterns in its wake, but also alive and working in all
    perception of pattern.

    - Scott

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