From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 15:22:14 BST
Hi Rich:
> PIRSIG
> "The MOQ sees emotions as a biological response to quality and not
> the same thing as quality." Hi ,I'm confused about the word quality in this
> quote. Since it's lowercase q does it mean static quality? Does he mean
> Dynamic Quality, or overall quality? If it's static quality, then emotions
> must be Dynamic Quality.If it's Dynamic Quality, then emotions must be
> static quality.If it's overall quality, then emotions exist outside
> quality. (??) I think he means Dynamic Quality even though he didn't
> capitalize it. But then if emotions are static quality then what do we call
> the part of us that directly experiences quality?Rich
Pirsig's note in "Lila's Child" responds to a claim by a then participant in
the discussion that Pirsig never differentiated emotivism and Quality,
resulting in " . . . quality simply becomes what you subjectively feel is
good."
Pirsig answered that emotions are just one possible response to
Quality, including both Static and Dynamic Quality. Emotions
themselves (fear, anger, joy) are a subdivision of static Quality at the
biological level. The part of us that directly experiences Quality is the
same part that directly experiences. Quality is direct experience.
There's no difference.
Hope this helps.
Platt
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