FROM WIKI (a seemingly debateable source) However it re-affirms my position.
Pirsig called Dynamic Quality "the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality" because it can be recognized before one can think about it. This means that Quality lies in the moment we sense anything during the instantaneous present; with a short delay we give this impression a static form by describing it as emotion, thing, word etc. These static forms, if they have enough good or bad quality, are given names and are interchanged with other people, building the base of knowledge for a culture. So some cultures divide between things other cultures perceive as equal (Pirsig give as example the sounds of the Indian syllables "dha" and "da" which are absolutely equal for western ears) and some cultures haven't any words for a specific meaning at all (The exact meaning of the German word "verklemmt" cannot be translated in English). It also explains that the Dynamic beauty of a piece of music can be recognized before reading any static analysis explaining Pirsig defines static quality as everything that can be conceptualized or recognized as forming patterns. Pirsig further divides static quality into inorganic, biological, social and intellectual patterns, in ascending order of morality. Ron: Using this quote as a starting point, I'm saying that Dynamic Quality "the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality" because it can be recognized before one can think about it, is spacially subject/object relationally sensed, before it becomes conceptualized and recognized as forming patterns. the focus being on the recognition of things before one can think about it. Again my suspicion is that preintellectual recognition has s/o distinction and naturally leads to s/o intellection, simply on the merit that we sense the phenomenal world as objects in relation to ourselves before we even think about it. I have ducked objects thrown at me before I was aware of the whats whys and hows of any of it. This is my thrust. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
