Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > Now the MOQ level has arrived and people can think about intellect as > a static value pure and simple, thus bypassing paradox, recursions, > strange loops and infinite regress > > [Arlo] > I'm sorry, Platt, gonna have to disagree with you on this. The only > way to "bypass" strange loops is to avoid "intellection" altogether. > The "out" in the MOQ is the pre-intellectual, "mystical" inclusion > brought in via Buddhism (for example). One simply can't "think about > thinking", even using MOQ-terminology, and avoid paradox, recursion and loops.
Yes, you're right. I agree. Was what I meant to convey. > What the MOQ does is make evident the "event horizon" surrounding > Quality. When Pirsig says "all this is just an analogy", he includes > within it the MOQ itself. Sure, the MOQ gives us a better way to > intellectually carve-up our experiences, and does not divide us from > the world as does SOM, but as an intellectual system, as a > metaphysics, its descriptions can contain experience without paradox. > Indeed, the key difference is that while SOM is blind to this, and > actively seeks an intellectual "literal truth", the MOQ embraces it, > and says that that core experience can only be seen through analogy, > metaphor, art, can only be glimpsed pre-intellectually. Agree. Thanks. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
