RE: MD A Question of Balance / Rules of the Game

From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 08 2005 - 19:01:45 GMT

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    [Case]
    Your butt could endure more degrees of temperature to avoid a single cobra
    as opposed to a thousand garter snakes. ... As Pirsig says our individual
    analogs or personal history affect our perception of quality.

    [Arlo]
    And "analogs" ARE semitoic mediations, Case. That's the point I was trying to
    make in the other thread. For "one experience" to be compared to "another
    experience", at least one of the situations has to be semiotically encoded, or
    else there would be no way to "act on" that situation once you are outside it.

    Thus, if the value judgement "the stove is hot but better than the snakes on the
    floor" occurs, it is because the "snake experience" as "really low Quality" has
    been semiotically encoded, and thus can be accessed for comparison from the
    perspective one has when sitting on the stove.

    Some argue, that BOTH situations have to be encoded for relationist valuation to
    occur, because such valuation mandates symbolically representing such
    experience. I tend to lean towards "at least one situation", without committing
    to "both", but the point is that semiosis undergirds the relational valuation
    process. It has to, or else how would one access the "low Quality analogs" of
    past experience? Pre-intellectual experience is "atemporal", that is, it is "in
    the moment".

    Arlo

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