dmb says: > > Well, no. Intellect is more dynamic than tradition in the sense that it is > more flexible, more open to change and it's self-correcting but it doesn't > work without a certain amount of stability. We are talking about a level of > STATIC patterns after all.
Who's this "we" you talkin' 'bout white boy. I don't believe the intellectual level is a static level because it has no definable upper boundary. If you can offer me a stopping place for intellectual patterning, assign a name to this pattern, objectify it, think about it, compare it with other possible patterns... and the process continually grows. Infinitely. > John also said: > > Pirsig makes the point in ZAMM when he describes the Mythos roots of > Virtue. > > > dmb says: > > Ummm, no. > > John clarifies what he mean: "Religion isn't invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent *responses* to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what they themselves are. You know something and the Quality stimulus hits (called DQ in Lila) and then you try to define the Quality stimulus (definition called sq in Lila) but to define it all you've got to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know. It can't be anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies upon analogues upon analogues upon analogues." ZAMM 317 Identical to a certain unnamable philosopher's philosophy of interpretation, btw. John concludes. 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/
