From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 21:31:40 BST
Hi
I know what I think, what do you think?
regards
David M
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From: "Mati Palm-Leis" <mpalm@merr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 8:42 PM
Subject: MD A dog's life
> David,
>
> I changed the heading because we are getting away from Pirsig's letter.
>
> It seems to me that perhaps the future is an illusion, however perhaps
> an important one.
>
> You wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Nit sure what you are saying, please expand.
> Certainly see key difference between dog and person
> as the larger range of choice available to a person
> due to a richer range of possibilities open to a person,
>
> My response is change possibilities to value patterns. There is a
> process we may call choice in which these value patterns assert
> themselves to attain a higher quality. When I put a pizza in the oven,
> I set the timer for 20 minutes. The value pattern of cooking suggests
> that at such temperature, for such duration will offer the correctly
> cooked/baked pizza. The fact in my mind is that it is the value patterns
> create the pizza.
>
> You wrote:
> a person's future is more full and therefore more dynamic
> than a dogs.
>
> My comment is that perhaps yes, because we humans have attained the
> Intellectual level. But when I feed the pizza to my dog his life is just
> as dynamic. According the line of thinking you have presented, perhaps
> the dog's "choice" to accept you as the master was just as a dynamic
> choice. :)
>
> Choice seems to imply indeterminacy and also
> that beings are somehow involved in going from the indeterminate
> to the actual/event.
>
> Here is the question, how do we choose? And from that how is that
> Dynamic?
>
> Mati
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