Gene Kofman (its@icanect.net)
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 04:20:08 +0100
Diana wrote:
> Doug Renselle wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Diana and Lila Squad!
> >
> > Diana McPartlin wrote:
> > > Sounds like Pirsig has contradicted himself. If the sense of value
> > > resides at the biological level and only living beings can perceive
> > > dynamic quality, how did the inorganic patterns ever evolve into
> > > biological ones?
> > >
> > > Diana
> > Diana,
> >
> > It is interesting that you see this as a contradiction. Jason and I
> > have found others too. We are trying to understand what is happening
> > here. Could it be that this is an issue of context instead of
> > contradiction?
>
>
> That may be a solution but, no, I don't think that is what Pirsig
intended. I
> can't believe that Pirsig would slip something like this into the MoQ
without
> making it clear.
In her earlier post, Diana mentioned that 'perceive' is the key word here.
I'd like to bring that resolution of the perceived contradiction back up.
Diana wrote:
> Anders Nielsen wrote:
>
> > But we do have an advantage that Moses didn't have when he had to
explain
> > the 10 commandments...We can go to the source and ask questions, so
> > how about we write up a letter pointing out the contradictions we seem
to
> > have stuck upon, and giving big P (or "the great author" as you people
insist
> > on calling him) a chance to elaborate on what he meant?
>
> If anyone wants to write to Pirsig that's entirely their own business.
Writing
> communal Lila Squad letters is a possibility too but I think we should
only do
> that after we've thoroughly thrashed the issues out amongst ourselves
first.
Absolutely agree.
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