From: David M (davidint@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 20:26:37 BST
> [In the hot stove example, Pirsig says that the mystic is on (or closer
> to)
> the Dynamic edge of the painful situation. But he also says that the
> mystic
> can be on the Dynamic edge of intellectual activity. So I should have
> acknowledged that about Pirsig's description. But then I have to ask: why
> is
> the Dynamic edge of intellectual activity called "pre-intellectual"?. It
> is,
> of course, this characterization of DQ (as pre-intellectual) that -- to me
> at least -- is the basis for my characterization of Pirsig's attitude
> toward
> intellect]
DM: Yes, realised you must mean without before. I think the pre-intellectual
is a kind of proof that there is more to experience than SQ. But DQ
obviously
continues to manifest itself in new ways as the SQ is laid down and creates
the levels, and I would therefore say that when high level intellectual SQ
is
being produced it is only possible because of the SQ that has come before
it,
it is not entirely down to DQ. I really think that the whole point of laying
down the
levels of SQ to create the cosmos is to explore more and more of what is
possible, that the point of the limitation that is SQ is to see what it is
possible
to achieve via this self-imposed limitation, to seewhat can be reached via
DQ's creativity. An artist creating their own materials if you like. The
lower
levels of creation is fulfilling this need.
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