On Apr 11, 2011, at 7:27 AM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR wrote: > [Marsha] > A rhetorical device you say? Or maybe an understanding that "This Cartesian > 'Me,' this autonomous little homunculus who sits behind our eyeballs looking > out through them in order to pass judgment on the affairs of the world, is > just > completely ridiculous." (LILA) Rhetoric or wisdom? > > [Arlo] > Rhetoric. "The MOQ" does not speak. Pirsig does. > > ""The trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for > eternity, and that isn't the way it ever is. People should see that it's never > anything other than just one person talking from one place in time and space > and circumstance. It's never been anything else, ever, but you can't get that > across in an essay." (ZMM) > > I can transcribe his quote from the DVD later today, if you don't recall it.
Marsha: It did sound familiar, but... Me, you and Pirsig are a fiction. "This self-appointed little editor of reality is just an impossible fiction that collapses the moment one examines it. This Cartesian 'Me' is a software reality, not a hardware reality. This body on the left and this body on the right are running variations of the same program, the same 'Me,' which doesn't belong to either of them. The 'Me's' are simply a program format." (LILA) ___ 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
