hi ham.
'To evaluate something as good or bad requires a cognitive subject, yet Pirsig
denies a subjective agent as anything but a "pattern of Quality". Obviously,
this is an epistemological paradox, for we can't appreciate (have an affinity
for) value if it is the very nature of our being.'
i like the rest of your post but i have probs with this part. cognition
reflects upon the immediate sensing of value - and then they can def play a
sort of feedback loop game.
both the subject and object are abstracted from immediate flux - the perpetual
becoming of time.
what is becoming - from whence the flux? well it is outside of time and space,
although not really 'outside' - for there is no outside (or whence), outside
requires the context of space (whence, of time). we need to give some poetic
license when we start speculating on these things.
bohm calls this eternal omnipresent dimension the implicate order. amongst
other things it explains non-locality and holograms. the explicate order
unfolds into time and space from the implicate order.
in castaneda's books, don juan explains the yacqui concept of tonal and nagual
which is very similar - nagual being the omnipresent eternal dimension. i
interpret the DQ/sq split in the same way - Dq is omnipresent, eternal, sq is
of time and space. the beauty of pirsig's terms is that they show that they are
both still essentially one - quality.
i guess there are many more correspondences - buddhism and taoism spring to
mind - so does jesus's 'before abraham was born i am'; so does deleuze when he
refers to reality as always 'virtual-actual'
perhaps a shortcoming of the word 'quality' is that it is quite dry. it hasn't
the deep emotional connotation of 'love' for instance; perhaps that is why
pirsig and dmb and others eschew this 'romantic' dimension, which religion
often likes to explore - again jesus was pretty big on it - and the beatles.
love and faith and a lot more joy - whatever is conducive to that, that's where
i'll hang my intellectual hat.
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