Craig, Both of these quotes are Dan's words, not mine.
Arlo On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 08:02 PM [email protected] wrote: > >[Arlo] >> Both static patterns and subjects and objects are 'real' in the sense >> that they represent how we make sense of what we experience. > >Your first statement is correct but it goes downhill after this. > >[Arlo] >> The example I gave of a rainbow a while back illustrates this well. >> If we stood next to each other somewhere and observed a rainbow we would >> both be observing different rainbows but we would (probably) agree that >> it was the same rainbow we were observing. > >Once we "agree that it was the SAME rainbow we were observing", >why make the obviously false claim that >"we would both be observing DIFFERENT rainbows"! >If I look at someone then tilt my head (or they move a little) and look again, I don't see a different person >(though I have a different view of the same person). > If I shine a light into your eyes, you really see light. And if I shine the light through a glass prism so that >it separates into a spectrum of color bands, you really see color bands of light. A prism doesn't change what's real into something unreal. >A rainbow is a spectrum created by water droplets instead of glass. >As Pirsig suggests, in searching for profundity, we shouldn't deny what a child knows. >Craig >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
