From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2003 - 03:27:25 GMT
Platt,
> >There is no biological/physical organ involved in
> > perceiving value like there is for sight or hearing.
>
> The biological/physical organ involved in perceiving value is known as
> "reward circuitry" which is hard-wired in the brain. If you're
> interested in finding out more about it, a Google search will bring up
> many references.
I would say I'm not interested. People who look for anything mental in the
brain are, in my opinion, looking for their keys under the lamppost "because
it is lighter there", rather than where they lost them. All that can be
found are the biological/physical correlates.
> >The limits of intellectual patterns
> > should be seen as the cutting edge of intellect, where DQ is alive and
> > present in each of us. That is why I despair of Pirsig for calling DQ
> > "pre-intellectual".
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but in simplist terms you believe in an
> immanent and transcendent intelligence which we mortals have partial
> access to through our abilities to create and reason. Or, as is often
> popularly stated, "We are not humans having a spiritual experience but
> rather spirits having a human experience."
>
> Am I close?
Yes.
>
> And what of your sense of beauty? Does it illuminate your way?
If you acknowledge (as I do) that reason is the name for DQ when thinking.
(I see reason as DQ for things that appear to come from within, while beauty
is DQ for things that appear to come from without.)
- Scott
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