[Platt] Exactly. That's why Pirsig compared the MOQ to the Copernican revolution that brought about a complete change of reality, the sun replacing the earth as the center of the universe. We are still feeling the reverberations from that cataclysmic shift of reality.
[Krimel] I have always thought Pirsig used the Copernican revolution metaphor for the same megalomaniacal reasons Kant did. The MoQ only seems like that kind of shift if you haven't kept up with the myriad of similar revolutions that have occurred since Kant and Newton. Kuhn of course is the expert on paradigm shifts. One of his early works was specifically on the Copernican revolution. Over the past 100 years these shifts have happened so regularly that no one even seems to notice them anymore. I don't think the Copernican revolution is giving people trouble much anymore but most people are still working in a Newtonian Euclidian world. Photography, telephony, flight and the trains all revolutionized people's world views in ways that are utterly transparent to most of us. Satellites, and cell phones have done more to expand human consciousness than all of the philosophers and theologians in history. 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
