Re: MD Intellectual level - New letter from Pirsig

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 18:15:23 BST

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    Hi Paul, anyone,

    Just while I'm working on a few things relating to this.... ;-)

    In his letter to you, Pirsig writes:
    > You have to cut it off somewhere, and it seems to me the
    > greatest meaning can be given to the intellectual level if it is
    > confined to the skilled manipulation of abstract symbols that have no
    > corresponding particular experience and which behave according to rules
    > of their own.

    Do you have any idea about who or what might be *doing* the manipulation (ie, who or what has the
    'skill')? Or is it that the symbols react to Quality on their own, without an intermediary? Or
    something else?

    Sam

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