Arlo, I haven't finished the book, but it sounds very much like Hosftdater has the brain defined as a thing-in-itself. He seems to be some kind of materialist. But I could be wrong. The rest of you post deals in baloney.
Marsha On May 31, 2010, at 5:14 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > [Marsha] > There was no indication that I applied anything like an evil label on > Hofstadter. > > [Arlo] > No, that's Platt's big-bad academic nonsense, but Hosftadter is about as > non-SOM as you can get. This is NOT Pirsig v. The World, by the way, there are > others who's non-SOM ideas can help expand rationality the way Pirsig > intended. > > [Marsha] > You might ask yourself where such nonsensical labeling is coming from. It is > your applied patterning, not mine. > > [Arlo] > "SOM" has become a ridiculous dismissive technique by the SOL jockeys. This is > so obvious it hardly merits mentioning, except that here the attempt is > against > someone whose un-SOM thinking could actually compliment Pirsig, strengthen his > ideas, is subjected to this. Platt's bias, of course, comes from his attempt > to > theologize the MOQ, you, I think, are just blinded by staring at the one SOM > tree and calling it the forest. You have extreme tunnel vision, and it does > not > serve you well. > > > > 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/md/archives.html ___ 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/md/archives.html
