Re: MD What is a living being?

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 15:00:56 BST

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    Hi Paul:

    > Pirsig writes:
    >
    > Lila is a cohesion of changing static patterns of
    > Quality. There isn’t any more to her than that. Ch 11
    >
    > Static patterns can’t by themselves perceive or adjust
    > to Dynamic Quality. Only a living being can do that.
    > Ch 13
    >
    > So the point is: If you add the statements together,
    > Lila is no more than a cohesion of static patterns of
    > Quality, therefore Lila can't perceive or adjust to
    > Dynamic Quality.

    In the first sentence Lila is a living human being. Pirsig didn't think it
    was necessary to state the obvious. He is not talking about a dead
    weasel. He's talking about a live person. So the sentence reads, "Lila (a
    living human being) is a cohesion of changing static patterns . . . etc.
    Just add what I put in parens if you must. Then the following statement
    presents no contradiction.

     
    > Where does 'the ability to respond to DQ' come from?
    > Pirsig clearly states that Static patterns of Quality
    > don't have that ability 'by themselves'.

    DQ, the principle of goodness, didn't come from anywhere because it
    has always been everywhere and nowhere simultaneously.

    Platt

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