Hi Platt I think this is important, because you need intellect to conceptualise and recognise a 'world' or 'universe' yet what a germ or electron can realise might have an important role to play in understanding the activity that all systems/patterns perform. There has to be choice or selection of some form or else there is only accident/chance. Or a mix of all these, but where to divide chance from choice/drive/desire of quality (good and bad) is more presupposed than evidenced as Pirsig suggests.
David M > >> Hi David M. >> >> Sun April 6 you wrote >> >> > Bo writes (March 27th): >> >> > > "The scientific-objective attitude is not that of holding on to a >> > > particular stage, but the continuous search. Yet, all this is fuelled >> > > by >> > > the conviction that there is a final truth because there is an >> > > independent reality (as expressed by Maturana's) >> >> > DM: Without us would this independent reality know >> > that it was there? >> >> Course not, there would not be an intellectual level to harbor that >> conviction (no social level either for that's matter). >> >> Bo > > Hi Bo, David M., > > Whether a germ knows there's an independent reality or not is debatable > since > we don't know what it's like to be a germ. That a germ knows that it's > better > for it to be in one place rather than another can be assumed by its > behavior. > Similarly with an electron. > > Regards, > Platt > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > 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/ > 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/
