Krimel asked dmb: What sort of experiences do you think transcend sensory experience? What exactly comes wandering through this door you think you are opening?
dmb replies: Value. Quality. A shift in consciousness, a mystical experience. There are all sorts of powerful and meaningful experiences that don't come through the sense organs. I think Pirsig is drawing attention to something we all do all the time, even if we usually fail to notice it. It is a sense of quality, a sense that's always working and accompanies just about every sight and sound we ever saw or heard, an immediate impression or feeling for the quality of the situation. This can be positive, negative or something in between. I mean, this sense of value does not mean we simply find goodness everywhere. It is more like a claim that all experience has an aesthetic quality and that this perception is just as real as any other perception. We might tempted to call this a sixth sense, but I think its more like the first sense, the most basic, immediate and primary mode of experience. _________________________________________________________________ Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback 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/
