[Platt] A particular person? Then why does Pirsig write, "Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is negative." (Lila, 5) Get it -- ANY PERSON.
[Arlo] But, I will say, if Pirsig is implying that all humans with similar biological constucts respond on the biological level to some inorganic stimuli in more or less the same way, I would agree. Human bodies biologically respond to "hunger" the same way (increased stomach acid, energy deficiencies, etc). But each bounded organism has its own unique threshold, its own unique responses, and over time may come to "experience" hunger along a range of "low quality" to "high quality" as this inorganic experience becomes mediated by social and cultural patterns. When this monk sets himself on fire in intellectual protest, do you see any evidence that he perceived his experience to be "low quality"? (http://www.toxicjunction.com/get.asp?i=V3627) Ron: How co-incidental, I was thinking of that same footage when Reading your post. On a side note, I think your statement is accurate, we all respond to Stimuli in more or less the same way and in that aspect we Respond to Quality. we still like to think objectively About this statement. All in all it is this response to Quality that Makes the MoQ questionable as to it being axiomatic in this way. The proof lies in the fact that we all respond to Quality. Not equally as you state, but that instant "no thinking" response Is something all of us shares. It's this commonality that is the most certain In our experience. What do you think this? 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/
