Greetings, fellow Squaddies --
A comment on Keith's program suggestion, and a tentative vote for it --
unless something else comes along that really wows me and changes my mind.
Keith wrote . . .
>"With the Metaphysics of Quality, Pirsig proposes a 'Copernican Revolution'
>in our understanding of reality, placing undefined value at the center and
>dividing it into static and Dynamic Quality. How are those of us still
>mired in a subject-object view of the world to wrap our minds around this
>transformation?
I like this part of Keith's program suggestion. I often find myself taking
an SOM approach to things even though I "know better". But then he asks . . .
>Is this static-dynamic split merely an epistemic
>convenience that we make arbitrarily or is it an ontological reality,
>transcending our thoughts and intellectual description of it?"
I'd have trouble with this one. To quote from ZAMM . . .
"All this is just an analogy."
Meaning in this case that MoQ is not any more "real" or "true"; it's simply a
better model. Its reality isn't the issue. So to me the first question is
of
greater interest, as it has some potential to affect how we handle situations
in our everyday lives.
Jeff Travis
MOQ Online - http://www.moq.org
