Yes, Arlo, why more Pirsig quotes you know I know ? I'm offended ;-) I didn't say biological I said "hard-wired" (in scare quotes - ie in need of a good deal of unpicking if you want to turn that into the subject of any discussion). Remember as Marsha often reminds us, few things are truly static - static enough to attract Pirsigian patterns, but always changing - just a question of which mechanisms / timescales are involved in their changing
Human birth brings a lot more than biology with it .... now we're just debating the subtleties of the boundary between biological and social, in the light of latest knowledge. If that's a debate you want - start a thread. Ian On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:08 PM, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[email protected]> wrote: > [Ian] > Even a human dropped at birth with no life memory, would have a lot of > "hard-wired" empathies and intellectual capacities I suspect ... > > [Arlo] > "Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out > of society, which originates out of biology which originates out of inorganic > nature." (LILA) > > There are no "hard-wired" (biological) intellectual capacities, at least not > in > Pirsig's MOQ. > > Sure, the human would have biological instincts as per those evidenced by the > species, but would not have access to social or intellectual patterns. > > 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
