[Platt]
the MOQ itself was created in the fertile brain of an individual
named Robert Pirsig, not some amorphous, fictional "collective mind."
[Arlo]
Need I remind you that the self is also a "ridiculous fiction"
according to Pirsig. "This Cartesian "Me," this autonomous little
homunculus who sits behind our eyeballs looking out through them in
order to pass judgment on the affairs of the world, is just
completely ridiculous. This self-appointed little editor of reality
is just an impossible fiction that collapses the moment one examines
it." (LILA)
Pirsig explains further. "This fictitious "man" has many synonyms:
"mankind," "people," "the public," and even such pronouns as "I,"
"he," and "they." Our language is so organized around them and they
are so convenient to use it is impossible to get rid of them. There
is really no need to. Like "substance" they can be used as long as it
is remembered that they're terms for collections of patterns and not
some independent primary reality of their own." (LILA)
We see here that this "me" is a semiotic reference point, a "fiction"
that we see as some "primary reality" but it not. As a "collection of
patterns", the "self" is that which derives from the social level,
through the confluence of a social individual's unique experience and
her/his appropriation of the collective consciousness. ("These fill
the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last
bit of it." (ZMM))
As for the MOQ coming from Pirsig's brain, Pirsig himself is quite
clear. "Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature.
They originate out of society."
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