Keith wrote: "If the baby ignores this force of Dynamic Quality it can be speculated that he will become mentally retarded, but if he is normally attentive to Dynamic Quality he will soon begin to notice differences and then correlations between the differences and then repetitive patterns of the correlations" (*Lila*, chapter 9). So there are static patterns in Dynamic Quality? Static quality within Dynamic Quality? How can something be dynamic and static, changing and unchanging, in flux and fixed at the same time? I smell a mucky contradiction here." Clark writes: As I interpret this passage: If the baby is normally perceptive of the impulses acting on him he will respond in some way. I take Pirsig to mean that the baby is too young to have a coherent response to the DQ stimulus. As the baby matures and becomes capable of connected thought processes he will begin to extract his own static quality from the original DQ or whatever the current DQ happens to be. There is no set pattern of static quality contained in the DQ. Each individual will draw his/her own pattern of static quality from a given set of DQ stimuli. The static quality does not exist until an entity capable of responding statically observes the DQ. Normally the sq will impose a different set of stimuli for each observer whether it be a living entity or a previously established set of sq. As I interpret the interaction between DQ and sq it is in a constantly ongoing state of flux with DQ being the subliminal function and sq being the state of new awareness deriving from the DQ stimulus. Again, the sq derived from an instantaneous state of DQ will be peculiar to each entity. MOQ Online Homepage - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ Unsubscribe - http://www.moq.org/md/index.html MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
