> [Krimel] > The absurdity results from clinging to a 19th > century view of causality. > Particles obey probabilistic laws. So do biological > organisms.
[SA] Krimel, I'm glad to see that somebody else views this quote of Pirsig in the light you do. Also, Pirsig discusses, it might be in this very chapter quoted above, how cause can be replaced with value and it doesn't subtract from the meaning, but actually enhances the meaning of what is happening. [Krimel] I like to think that Pirsig simply was unaware of some of these things and that while he saw some of the issues he was not prepared to deal with them. Given the improvements in our understanding of probability and chance it is certainly possible to develop a metaphysics of randomness. His use of Taoism as the basis for the MoQ at least puts him on the right path. But since he elects to ignore these MoQ discussion it is hard to say what he thinks. We only know what he thought. 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/
