[Platt] I'm afraid your finger points in only one direction -- down. Such reductionism can be helpful at times, but it utterly fails, as Pirsig said, to answer, "Why does any life survive?"
Maybe you should take another look at the direction Pirsig's finger points. [Krimel] Ok I was wrong. I overestimated your ability to even tell which way his finger points. Pirsig clearly begins at the lower levels and points up. I began a rather detailed account of how the levels emerge from one another not long ago. It addressed why this happens and what are some of the critical features of each level that make them different. It does answer some of the childish "Whys?" you keep asking if not completely then certainly with more precision than your "Poof" answer. It can be found in the archives at: http://lists.moqtalk.org/htdig.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/2008-August/02738 9.html It was posted Aug. 17 at 13:05:46 pm 2008 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/
