On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Platt had said] > The same way I know that life is better than death. Of course, you may > disagree. > > [Arlo had asked] > And how do you "know" this? > > [Platt] > From experience, of course. > > [Arlo] > When did you experience "death" to know that it would not be "better"? > Many times. Very low quality. In your experience has death been otherwise? [Platt] > > How did you know to ask me how I know this? > > [Arlo] > I have no idea what this means. > It means how do you know to ask a question. > > [Platt] > How is language like pre-intellectual experience? > > [Arlo] > Language is the use of analogy to describe pre-intellectual experience. > > "If it had a nervous system it would act in a much more complex way to > overcome the poor quality of the environment. It would seek analogues, that > is, images and symbols from its previous experience, to define the > unpleasant nature of its new environment and thus 'understand' it." (ZMM) > [Pirsig] > "When A. N. Whitehead wrote that "mankind is driven forward by dim > apprehensions of things too obscure for its existing language," he was > writing about Dynamic Quality. Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual > cutting edge of realty, the source of all things, completely simple and > always new." (Lila, 9) > Pre-intellectual experience is too obscure for language, i.e., analogy. 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/
