[Gav] > does the social level only apply to humans? > i think this is a commonly held moq pos, but where does pirsig say it?
Here's one place where he says it: "Societies" is used figuratively here as a more colorful word meaning "groups." If I had known it would be taken literally as evidence that cells belong in the social level I would not have used it. Maybe in a future edition it can be struck out. One can also call ants and bees "social" insects, but for purposes of precision in the MOQ social patterns should be defined as human and subjective. Unlike cells and bees and ants they cannot be detected with an objective scientific instrument. For example there is no objective scientific instrument that can distinguish between a king and commoner, because the difference is social. (SODV Note 49) 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/
