Marsha said:
It is true that patterns may include a collection of words, and I take patterns
as hypothetical (supposed but not neccesarily real or true). I think
considering patterns to be hypothetical acknowledges the incompleteness of
patterns and makes room for new possibilities. ...I'll stick to considering
static patterns of value as hypothetical. ...I did not state that 'truth' was
wrong, bad or didn't exist. I stated that I value more highly using the word
'pattern' rather then 'truth'; and I prefer to think of patterns as
'hypothetical'. ...I prefer to think of objects of knowledge (patterns) as
hypothetical. Once one accepts the MoQ's fundamental principal that the world
is nothing but Value, then 'expanded rationality' occurs when an individual
transforms the natural tendency to reify self and world into the natural
tendency to hold all static patterns of value to be hypothetical (supposed but
not neccesarily real or true.) By using 'hypothetical' ...After much thought
, I wrote a very careful explanation of why I prefer to think of patterns as
hypothetical:
dmb says:
Marsha is using the MOQ's critique of SOM against the MOQ itself. She is
inappropriately using Pirsig's attack on Objective truth to attack Pirsig's own
pragmatic truth. She has confused the sickness with the medicine. That's how
she ends up denigrating truth, philosophy, the MOQ itself and intellectual
values in general. It's a heart-breaking pile of incoherent drivel, confusion
and conflation of the operative terms, and big heaps of contradictory nonsense.
THE PROBLEM - Our modes of rationality are no longer adequate.
"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better
world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. ...the
whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer
adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is...emotionally hollow,
esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty."
"I think the basic fault that underlies the problem of stuckness is traditional
rationality's insistence upon "objectivity," a doctrine that there is a divided
reality of subject and object. For true science to take place these must be
rigidly separate from each other."
"When traditional rationality divides the world into subjects and objects it
shuts out Quality, and when you're really stuck it's Quality, not any subjects
or objects, that tells you where you ought to go."
"the thing to be analyzed, is not Quality, but those peculiar habits of thought
called 'squareness' that sometimes prevent us from seeing it. ..The subject for
analysis, the patient on the table, was no longer Quality, but analysis itself.
Quality was healthy and in good shape. Analysis, however, seemed to have
something wrong with it that prevented it from seeing the obvious."
"He did nothing for Quality or the Tao. What benefited was reason." The problem
is that "Reason and Quality had become separated and in conflict with each
other" back in the days of Plato.
THE SOLUTION - A root expansion of rationality through the inclusion of Quality
at it's center; rationality, like motorcycle maintenance, becomes a form of art.
"He [Phaedrus] felt that the solution started with a new philosophy, or he saw
it as even broader than that...a new spiritual rationality...in which the
ugliness and the loneliness and the spiritual blankness of dualistic
technological reason would become illogical. Reason was no longer to be "value
free." Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality."
"What's emerging from the pattern of my own life is the belief that the crisis
is being caused by the inadequacy of existing forms of thought to cope with the
situation. It can't be solved by rational means because the rationality itself
is the source of the problem. The only ones who're solving it are solving it at
a personal level by abandoning 'square' rationality altogether and going by
feelings alone. Like John and Sylvia here. And millions of others like them.
And that seems like a wrong direction too. So I guess what I'm trying to say is
that the solution to the problem isn't that you abandon rationality but that
you expand the nature of rationality so that it's capable of coming up with a
solution."
"Now 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."
"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."
"A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a
study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the
art of rationality itself."
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