From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 17:09:44 BST
Paul,
> "Therefore, to the question, "What is the purpose of all this
> intellectual knowledge?" the Metaphysics of Quality answers, "The
> fundamental purpose of knowledge is to Dynamically improve and preserve
> society." Knowledge has grown away from this historic purpose and become
> and end in itself just as society has grown away from its original
> purpose of preserving physical human beings and become and end in
> itself, and this growing away from original purposes toward greater
> Quality is a moral growth." Lila p344
>
> Of course, this quote is from Pirsig, who clearly doesn't understand the
> MOQ as well as you ;-)
I think Pirsig falls into a SOM trap here. That is a view that presupposes
that there was no intellect until brains developed to produce it. Intellect
produced the brain so it can work in physical reality. No, I can't prove
this, but I take it as a more useful myth than the Darwinian one.
>
> I think the basic value of thinking is the conceptual organisation and
> explanation of experience. Intellectual patterns evolve towards better
> explanations of experience.
I disagree. Again, I see this as a SOM viewpoint: there is objective
experience to be explained by the subject. This is the current value of S/O
thinking, as Bo says, but not basic. Basically, I would say that the value
of thinking, like everything else, is creativity for its own sake.
- Scott
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