RE: MD The Intellectual Level

From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Jul 26 2003 - 21:52:54 BST

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    Hi Rick, Jon and all:

    RICK
    In your first sentence you correctly noted that my argument was that the
    '4th level intellect' and the 'pre/post intellect' are not the same thing.

    Jonathan replies:
    Why use the same word when you mean two different things? Are you sure they
    are different?

    dmb says:
    It is a bit confusing. The "pre/post" thing doesn't seem right. I mean,
    Pirsig uses the idea of a "pre-intellectual" reality, but I'm not sure
    what's up with the adding a slash and a word there. Clearly, the 4th level
    of static values and the dynamic pre-intellectual reality are not the same
    and should not be called by the same name. In fact, they are approximately
    opposite. I mean, as far as descriptive labels go, "PRE-intellectual" is not
    very far away from "NOT intellectual" or more precisely "not yet
    intellectual". Reality happens before you have a chance to think about it.
    Ponderin' is a whole different deal. I see no reason why we shouldn't refer
    to this pre-intellectual awareness as exactly that. I suppose we'll all
    disagree about this too, but I think we're talking about DQ, about the
    undifferentiated aesthetic continuum, the ground of being. Intellectual
    static values are just fine, but they ain't all that.

    Thanks.

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