HI Ant, Kirimel, Mark, all,
Ant said: > I also looked at a paper by Stephen Hawking on the Second Law of > Thermodynamics (“Life in the Universe” found at > http://hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65). I > don’t see any disagreement in the latter with what Pirsig has written about > the subject in Chapter 11 of LILA. Pirsig uses the example of how organisms > create order out of disorder on very much the same lines as he uses the > example of birds > flying into the sky (when they “defy” gravity). Even though they are > illustrating the same point (i.e. biological > patterns operate on different laws to inorganic patterns so often evade them > or overcome them) the issue of how Pirsig has used gravity (in the example) > never seems to generate anywhere near the controversy written about the > Second Law of Thermodynamics. My guess is that the creationist vs. science > debate is a more sensitive issue in the States so people (on both side of the > debate) are reading into Pirsig things he simply did not say. I read that Hawking essay you linked to. Very interesting. I don't see anything there that is inconsistent with Pirsig and I agree that the Creationism debate is "probably the explanation foreading into Pirsig things he simply did not say." Best, Steve 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/
