Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 19:18:47 GMT

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    Hi Platt,

    >OK. But where does the illusion part comes in, if as you say,
    >postmodernism posits that thoughts are illusions? Are not expectations
    >thoughts?
    >
    >Platt

    wait, did I say thoughts are illusions? I suppose 'my thoughts' could be
    considered illusions, in the sense that 'me' is an illusion, but at the root
    of it, the illusion that is 'me' is created by the same patterns that emerge
    from an original transcendent Expectation much like (i think) Schopenhauer's
    Will, the only difference being an instrinsic indeterminancy, a possibility.
      Our individual thoughts and expectations are all determined by patterns
    around us, that's why they correlate with each other. They aren't
    arbitrary, and they can't be faked. If you expect or think something, you
    can't help but expect or think it, because it comes from a transcendent
    source - the shared a priori static patterns we call reality that emerge
    from a priori expectation itself.

    that isn't saying much, is it?

    Johnny

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