Had time to read this piece more reflectively over the weekend DMB. Your "thinking out loud" is excellent stuff.
I think this is key, ... after you have described the "non-explicit" thinking process in the classic tooth and claw predator survival case of evolution ... the simple intentional (as if) view of causation is shorthand for a whole lot of activities on many levels and timescales ... you say ... QUOTE the word "expedient" almost has to be vague UNQUOTE This is exactly what Pirsig is saying when he says that value / quality "must remain undefined" ? Pragmatically, these values cannot be pre-judged, prior to the hindsight of the evolutionary process. Our framework / world-view must not be (MoQ is not) prejudicial to that process. Regards Ian 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/
