Hi Horse, I can accept an 'illusion' in place of a 'fiction.'
Marsha On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Horse wrote: > Hi Marsha > > I think Pirsig is using the term 'fiction' here in the same way that one > would use the term 'illusion'. > An illusion is real enough in that we don't have to see it as something that > doesn't exist - it just doesn't exist in the way we think it does. > > The 'I' is illusory, not fictitious. Big difference. > > Horse > > On 11/04/2011 12:33, MarshaV wrote: >> 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) > > -- > > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." > — Frank Zappa > > ___ 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
