Krimel, Also I beleive this is one of those examples, perhaps exaggerated, of how all of us tend to warp words to fit our own beliefs. It often seems that Platt does test the plasticity of Pirsigs words to their contextual limits. What I "beleive" Pisig was doing was illustrating the limits of the common scientific understanding in causual terms.
-Ron ________________________________ From: Krimel <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:17:33 PM Subject: Re: [MD] new blog [Platt] Perhaps your non believers would like to address the question Pirsig posed in Lila: "Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive? If we leave a chemistry professor out on a rock in the sun long enough the forces of nature will convert him into simple compounds of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, and small amounts of other minerals. It's a one-way reaction. No matter what kind of chemistry professor we use and no matter what process we use we can't turn these compounds back into a chemistry professor. Chemistry professors are unstable mixtures of predominantly unstable compounds which, in the exclusive presence of the sun's heat, decay irreversibly into simpler organic and inorganic compounds. That's a scientific fact. "The question is: Then why does nature reverse this process? What on earth causes the inorganic compounds to go the other way? It isn't the sun's energy. We just saw what the sun's energy did. It has to be something else. What is it?" (Lila, 11) [Krimel] You really are shameless to keep trotting out this transparently bogus quote. It should be an embarrassment to Pirsig to have it repeated. I seriously can't imagine anyone who studies biology or basic physics failing to understand that life on earth is a direct result of the constant influx of solar radiation on our planet's surface. 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/ 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/ 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/
