Hi Bo, You said to DM: > ... do you agree with my analysis of the said passage > from LILA, that it (by many twists and turns) shows that SOM is > the intellectual level? All of it, every last bit?
Similarly in Lila's Child you said, "A while back, we spoke about the emergence of intellect and I said that in a way Subject/Object Metaphysics could be seen as identical to the intellectual level of the MOQ!" As I'm sure you are aware, Pirsig responded to your equating the intellectual level with SOM in Lila's Child: "43. This seems too restrictive. It seems to exclude non-subject- object constructions such as symbolic logic, higher mathematics, and computer languages from the intellectual level and give them no home. Also the term “quality” as used in the MOQ would be excluded from the intellectual level. In fact, the MOQ, which gives intellectual meaning to the term quality, would also have to be excluded from the intellectual level. If we just say the intellect is the manipulation of language-derived symbols for experience these problems of excessive exclusion do not seem to occur." How do you respond to his critique? Regards, Steve 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/
