On 8 Jun 2010 at 7:06, [email protected] wrote:
[Steve]
> But Pirsig never says "the way we experience reality IS a
> metaphysics."
[Bo]
Of course not, but the message is that ordering existence is
humankind's hallmark, and the respective orderings were not regarded
as such it WAS existence. I know no way to convey this without
invoking SOM, but this is the message of the said quote.
{Platt]
I use the "glasses" metaphor as a way to convey this.
"The culture in which we live hands us a set of intellectual glasses to
interpret experience with, and the concept of the primacy of subjects and
objects is built right into these glasses." (Lila, 8)
I wear glasses. I never take them off except to sleep.They are part and parcel
of my existence. If I take them off my existence changes, becomes indistinct.
But here's the thing; I rarely aware that I have them on, like I'm rarely aware
that I divide experience into subjects and objects. In fact, before I read
Lila, I was unaware of the S/O division and the metaphysical glasses that
created my S/O existence. Then Pirsig said, "Try on these new glasses that
divides experience into static and dynamic Quality." I did, and discovered a
different existence, more luminous than the one before.
We depend for survival on a metaphysical premise, a first division, built into
our glasses that orders experience and creates patterns of meaning. Depending
on which glasses we choose, we understand more or less clearly.
Platt
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