Hi Ham
> David (Part 2 of Ham's response to the Pirsig quote) -- > > Pirsig describes the pressure, sound, warmth, and hunger which stimulate > the > fetus as a "generalized something", and he borrows James's term "dim > apprehension" to introduce these stimuli as Dynamic Quality. Totally > missing from this description is the word "feeling", and we are left with > the concept of a human organism whose "attention [is] compelled" by > stimulation of a vague otherness. > DM: This is wrong because it fails to see what the use of the term quality implies. Quality implies feeling, we do not begin by experiencing abstract qualities like blue, we experience engaged qualities that always have a felt meaning for us.Experience is always of qualities that are more or less experienced as better or worse compared to other qualities, even indifference is an aspect of experienced quality. We notice the various qualities of our experience because they are aspects of change DQ or re-cognition SQ. 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/
