Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The MOQ posits that inorganic patterns of value "experience" inorganic value. For the sake of common sense if nothing else I would interpret the MOQ as positing that the inorganic patterns of value that "experience" inorganic values are limited to particles, atoms, and molecules that are essential components of the human brain on which our experience (and thus knowledge of value patterns) depends. In short theres no evidence that gravity, rocks or motorcycles experience. But if the brain is the seat of our experience, and if it is dependent on the aforementioned particles, atoms and molecules, then we can infer that they too are experiential entities. To claim the building blocks of the brain are as inert as rocks is to posit that our capacity to experience emerges from something akin to dirt. That stretches credulity a lot more than Pirsigs assertion that inorganic elements experience values at their own level. How particles, atoms and molecules managed to evolve into organisms (whose capacity to experience is hardly in doubt) is as much a mystery today as it has ever been. Pirsigs explanation of betterness is a good as any and certainly better than emergence which explains nothing. So I agree with Arlo about inorganic entities experiencing, but not forces like gravity or aggregates like rocks and motorcycles. 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/
