[Pirsig, courtesy Steve] "A conventional subject-object metaphysics uses the same four static patterns as the Metaphysics of Quality, dividing them into two groups of two: inorganic-biological patterns called "matter," and social- intellectual patterns called "mind."...Everything has got to be object or subject, substance or non-substance, because that's the primary division of the universe. Inorganic-biological patterns are composed of "substance," and are therefore "objective." Social-intellectual patterns are not composed of "substance" and are therefore called "subjective."
Is the mind/matter distinction the same as the subjective/objective? Or are the distinctions the same within MOQ but not within SOM? [Pirsig, via Steve again] "So what the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that all schools are right on the mind-matter question. Mind is contained in static inorganic patterns. Matter is contained in static intellectual patterns." This has always seemed a slip of the tongue to me. Does anyone else think so? Craig 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/
