After reading Roger's last few posts...
Here's what is running through my head:
(and tipping through my toes)
I am seeing two somewhat distinct elements (for lack of a better term)
in the MOQ, as I understand it - or stand under it.
I - HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Here we have the Quality Event. By which the subject is made aware of
the object.
Here is the Dynamic preintellectual cutting edge of reality which is
deduced from that VERY important, but much neglected time lag.
The mystic tries to hang on to this, even the leading edge of thought
itself, as Pirsig says.
This is what is most real (?)
Here is UNITY, no division... the "undifferentiated aesthetic
continuum", the aim of Zen...
Only after the track has been laid down do the static cohesive boxcars
of value patterns (people) lay out conceptions of what just happened.
---The Hot Stove.
Deals with Phaedrus' final unfortunate stage
All things Psychological
And what the heck is CONSCIOUSNESS according to the MOQ? I don't think
Pirsig ever uses the term
II COSMIC EVOLUTION
Inorganic
Biological
Social
Intellectual
Dynamic force and static latching.
We really ought to jointly create a chronology of significant Dynamic
improvements and static latching. Is this somehow possible on this
site...a continually expanding and improving list of (Quality) events
and spacetime locations, to which anyone can add according to his or
her knowledge?
And two distinct ways of studying the MOQ:
I - ROMANTICALLY
harping on the beauty of Dynamic Quality and the ugliness and
unreality of static patterns...
mystic concerns
-empiricism
our daily experience
-poems, prayers, promises - Rhetoric
-Art
Induction
Intuition
Riding the bike through the mountains
II - CLASSICALLY
working out the philosophical/metaphysical aspects
Platypi Anatomy
trashing subject/object metaphysics
-pragmatism
books, essays, arguments - Dialectic
-Science
Deduction
Logic, Reason
Fixing the bike in the garage.
Damn.
Gotta go back to my computerless home.
Take care, have gumption and be good.
rich
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