Quoting Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> [Platt] > You belie your objection to betterness by the very beliefs you express which > I presume you consider much, much better than the alternatives since you > express them with such certainty. Anyway, even my cat, like a bacterium, > knows when "It's better here than there." And for all we know, so does and > electron. > > [Case] > My statements are my statements. I represent them as nothing more or nothing > less. I know what I think is better for me and mine. Personally, I think the > fact that you are willing to ascribe not just value but value judgments and > sentience to single celled organisms and electrons is clear evidence that > Pirsig overestimated his audience's powers of discernment. "What the organism learns about its environment can be expressed in the simple phrase, 'Its better here' or 'Its not so good here.' " Konrad Lorenz, zoologist and Noble Prize winner -- obviously someone of "low powers of discernment." Yeah, right. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
