Ron: The levels are a description of experience. Discrete is a difficult term to apply to the levels, they certainly have no definitive boundaries, they overlap, lo level values will tend to accumulate to form differing patterns of higher value, HIV a biological value, discretely changed social level values and intellectual values. as the biological epidemic grew the social level paranoia spread about homosexuality and changed thoughts and attitudes about sexuality as a whole.
[Krimel] Just so you know that denying that the levels are absolutely discrete amounts in some quarters to MoQ heresy. I would continue to argue that this is what makes them a secondary issue, unrelated to the metaphysical aspects of the MoQ. I am almost certain that Pirsig would disagree. Ron: Just to keep this understandable, how are you using the term discrete? what do you take it to mean? [Krimel] Divorced from one another, noncontinuous, independent, no overlap. Or as Pirsig put it: "This classification of patterns is not very original, but the Metaphysics of Quality allows an assertion about them that is unusual. It says they are not continuous. They are discreet. They have very little to do with one another. Although each higher level is built on a lower one it is not an extension of that lower level. Quite the contrary. The higher level can often be seen to be in opposition to the lower level, dominating it, controlling it where possible for its own purposes." Is: present tense of the verb "to be." 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/
