Bo: > The reason for Pirsig's saying that nothing but man responds to DQ is > I believe that he (correctly) regards the intellectual level as Q- > evolution's last stage (leading edge) and that humankind's is it's sole > "inhabitant" here (not even all of those). The inorganic level was DQ's > first creation and what it immediately started to probe in an effort to > escape. The result was the biological level which became leading > edge and what "responded to DQ" .. and so on. The lower levels > workings are now "static responses" as I see it. Your insisting that the > MOQ is - and will remain - an intellectual level is an example of > STATIC intellectual response. The thing now is to free DQ from its last > static creation - intellect - and let the Quality Evolution find its > "final > form". Here things kind of collapses - I admit that - but not only for > the > SOL interpretation, one can't possibly envisage a new intellectual > pattern that contradicts the MOQ without the MOQ collapsing. OK as > always out on my mission.
This is how I see it, too. Also, I don't think anyone, least of all Pirsig, would claim that the MOQ is the last word. At least I would hope that in 10,000 years we would have moved on. Platt 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/
