MD
Marsha has read McWatt's paper and is impressed.
Excerpt from the paper:
"Therefore, for Pirsig, immediate experience (or Quality) is
experience where there is no distinction between what is
experienced and the act of experiencing itself."
OK, the basic argument in ZAMM is a pre-existing reality before the
subject becomes aware of the objective world. Thus the pre-
something (now called Quality) must necessarily be the DQ that
spawns static qualities. In the first sketch the static part was just the
S/O (called "intellect"). The mystery is the why postulate that DQ
spawns the MOQ and remains unscathed outside of metaphysics.
Quality is the changing flux of reality that logically comes
before any conceptual distinctions such as subjects and
objects are made. The concepts of subject and object are
commonly confused with the essence of reality because they
have become such a common apparatus for describing,
understanding and analysing that reality.
"Before language" is valid in the MOQ where the basic distinction is
Dynamic/Static and where language can be a static social pattern, but
not in the SOM where the basic distinction (in this case) is
language/reality. SOM's paradox-creating nature immediately shows
that nothing can be before language. Anthony obviously spots the
flaw, but merely reinforces it.
This is not to say conceptualisation in itself is a problem (for
the MOQ is a set of concepts) but the confusion of concepts
for reality itself is.
Conceptualisation is very much a problem in the language/reality
variety of SOM that Pirsig suddenly wants the MOQ to be subordinate
to .....shown in the Quality/MOQ super- metaphysics. What medium
did Pirsig use to show that there is a Quality outside/before language?
Either I have fallen off my rocking chair or ..?
Bo
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