[Platt quotes Bob to prove DQ comes as a surprise]
"The first good, that made you want to buy the record, was Dynamic
Quality. Dynamic Quality comes as a sort of surprise. What the record
did was weaken for a moment your existing static patterns in such a
way that the Dynamic Quality all around you shone through." (Pirsig)
[Arlo]
Excellent! I am so glad you included the entirety of this quote. I
direct your attention to the next sentence. "What the record did was
weaken for a moment your existing static patterns in such a way that
the Dynamic Quality all around you shone through." (Pirsig)
".... so that the Dynamic Quality all around you shone through."
DQ is always there, it is in ever moment, it is the seed of
uncertainty in the organism's immediate experience. It is not "rare",
it is "ALL AROUND YOU".
"Mystic learning goes in the opposite direction and tries to hold to
the ongoing Dynamic edge of all experience." (Pirsig)
Also, consider Pirsig's statement, "Static quality...emerges in the
wake of Dynamic Quality".
Dynamic Quality is the always present NOW, static quality comes
later. There are no "static responses". There is only preferred value
in the wake of the Dynamic moment.
"Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual cutting edge of reality, the
source of all things, completely simple and always new." (Pirsig)
Not some reality. Not here and there. Not on occasion. Not to a
select few. ALL reality. ALL things. It is the cutting-edge of
reality itself, the "front edge of his experience" (immediate experience).
To get back to your quote. DQ is all around you. Always. It is the
NOW moment of your experience. It contains the potential for
uncertainty. It keeps the cosmos from unaltering stasis. It is what
provides our agency and free will as human beings, and as such MUST
be present at every moment, or else we are reduced to either
automatons or play-dough. The potential for uncertainty IS what makes
us free, what makes all things inherently evolutionary.
Sure, we as human beings invent many wonderful analogues (in response
to Dynamic Quality), and these analogues represent a preferred way of
responding to immediate experience, and later we see them as a
Gestalt we call "static quality".
What the record did... was shatter your existing static patterns
(your preferred ways of responding to immediate experience)... in
such a way... that the Dynamic Quality all around you... shone though
(uncertainty led to seeing the world in a non-habituated way).
Exactly what I've been saying.
Thanks.
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