Hello everyone On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:58 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [Dan] > Thank you for the reply. I take this of course from the Robert Pirsig letter > to > Paul Turner. To be honest, parts of this have troubled me and I welcome an > opportunity to perhaps get into it more deeply. > > [Arlo] > I went back and pulled this quote and it does appear to me you got the > social-intellectual thing reversed. Here is what Pirsig said. > > "Just as every biological pattern is also inorganic, but not all inorganic > patterns are biological; and just as every social level is also biological, > although not all biological patterns are social; so every intellectual pattern > is social although not all social patterns are intellectual." > > Your analogy had the opposite, "every social pattern is an intellectual > pattern > but not all intellectual patterns are social."
Hi Arlo Yes you're right. I should have pulled up the quote instead of relying on memory. But my question still stands: If social patterns are not intellectual, how do we discriminate them from other patterns? As I said, I am confused. Are they hard-wired into our nature? Thank you, Dan > > > 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
