From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 18:11:03 BST
Hello MoQuites,
Before I describe who I am and where I'm coming from ....
I notice that MD is very active. I've been monitoring the MoQ site on and
off for about 18 months and noted that MF was dormant, and hadn't actually
noticed MD until a couple of weeks ago (!) It's clearly going to take some
time to get into the swim of MD, the players, the subjects and the language,
but I'm here for the long haul if you'll have me. My (naive) questions are.
(1) Is "horse" still the webmaster of MoQ and is darkstar still his/her
address ?
(2) Is MF formally defunct, or just inactive for lack of input / moderation
?
(3) What is the relationship between the Quantonics site and the MoQ site,
practically ?
(4) Depending on the answers to 1 to 3, is MD the sole means of input to
this community / debate ?
The reason I'm interested, is that I'm on a research "quest" for knowledge
models that better capture the true "irrationality" ( I use scare quotes
BTW) of human organisations. Unlike some of you I suspect, I'm less
concerned whether the MoQ can be shown to be the best basis for
enlightenment and a philosophy of everything since the pre-Socratics (I
merely have to believe it). I have very pragmatic aims in achieving
something beneficially useful - valued in Pirsig's sense - in everyday
nine-to-five life - commercial exploitation being merely a possible bonus
opportunity of "value". (I actually happen to believe Pirsig had similar
pragmatic aims, not just stated, but also apparent in his allegorical halt
before the "summit" of Mt Blackmore, and many more analogies he uses.)
Anyway enough about Pirsig ;-)
To know me ...
My biog details are here http://www.psybertron.org/contact.html
The "manifesto" that started my quest is here
http://www.psybertron.org/manifesto.html
(A summary statement of that appears in the header of my weblog.)
The weblog of my thoughts appears here www.psybertron.org
(Equivalent to Pirsig's 4000 slips, not ?)
My putative Pirsig pages here http://www.psybertron.org/pirsigpages.html
Be gentle with me
Ian Glendinning
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