Marsha asked:
How are feelings, passions and other modes of consciousness included back into
rationality? How are they included back into science? How are then included
back into mathematics? How?
Pirsig wrote:
"I want to show that that classic pattern of rationality can be tremendously
improved, expanded and made far more effective through the formal recognition
of Quality in its operation." (ZAMM, p. 278)
"I think that it will be found that a formal acknowledgment of the role of
Quality in the scientific process doesn't destroy the empirical vision at all.
It expands it, strengthens it and brings it far closer to actual scientific
practice." (ZAMM, p. 282)
"But the Metaphysics of Quality also says that Dynamic Quality - the
value-force that chooses an elegant mathematical solution to a laborious one,
or a brilliant experiment over a confusing, inconclusive one - is another
matter altogether. Dynamic Quality is a higher moral order than static
scientific truth, and it is as immoral for philosophers of science to try to
suppress Dynamic Quality as it is for church authorities to suppress scientific
method. Dynamic value is an integral part of science. It is the cutting edge
of scientific progress itself." (LILA, p. 366)
"Now it's time to further an understanding of nature's order by reassimilating
those passions which were originally fled from. The passions, the emotions, the
affective domain of man's consciousness, are a part of nature's order too. The
central part." (ZAMM p. 294)
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