[Platt] Arlo flatly contradicts Pirsig. About those two biological individuals -- according to Arlo they both started talking simultaneously.
No matter how Arlo tries to justify a communitarian agenda, "Someone has to be first." [Arlo] Arlo does not contradict Pirsig, he simply takes all of Pirsig into account, and he certainly does not use one one-liner to disprove other things the man said. As for your "one lone man who just started talking", I don't know how much more ridiculous you can get (but I'm sure you'll find a way to top it eventually). Yes, they did in that moment of recognition of shared attention both start talking simultaneously, as they negotiated rudimentary symbols for the experience they were sharing. And in that moment, culture and selves were born. And this event was made possible by the long chain of evolution that set in place the neurobiological affordances and constraints upon which the recognition of the shared event, and the storage of symbolic representae was made possible. But, it makes soooo much more sense that there was this one lone man, who just decided to invent language, and then went out and taught it to others. Nevermind that if he had no language prior to inventing language, how'd he do it? No, you can stick with your I-B-I MOQ all you want, I'll take Pirsig's I-B-S-I. 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/
