Hi Rasheed, Platt
Rasheed:
My perception of the 'code of art' was wrong, thanks for clearing it up.
However, because t is in fact a fourth Dynamic morality, doesnt that in
itself point to a fifth level?
Marco:
Who knows? The only important thing is that, fifth or not fifth, we still have to
elevate the fourth...
Platt:
You say emotions are biological. Your cat
purrs and is happy. Later you speak of a *sense of beauty.* Is the
sense of beauty an emotion? If so, how come your cat doesn't respond
to art? Do humans have biologically-based emotions that cat's don't? If
so, wouldn't that mess up Pirsig's separate levels?
Marco:
Another thing I've noticed is that my cat *prefers* to sleep on clean dresses, and on
my bed when it's well arranged. Otherwise, if the bed is all messed up, she uses to
sleep on an old chair. In the past, another cat had different fondnesses. I'd not
point to that exactly as an appreciation of *the art of bed arranging*, just I think
that many mammals sometimes seem to demonstrate a primitive sense of beauty. As well
as they demonstrate a primitive capacity (from our viewpoint) of thought.
What the sense of beauty *is*, it's a difficult question. Surely, beauty has the
capacity to generate emotions; so, maybe, when we follow beauty we are also searching
for emotions. By means of art, this search becomes active and not passive: it's an
attempt to investigate and dominate and communicate certain aspects of reality (let's
not forget that emotions are perfectly real).
The fact that cats can't respond to art is not different from the fact that cats are
not intersted to science. Anyway, despite of their great capacity of falling on their
legs, they are angry when gravity make them fall down from the third floor......
meow!
Marco
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