[Case] > Nowhere in Lila does Pirsig claim he is writing a work on cosmology.
But his new metaphysics does have repercussions on one's view of cosmology. [Case] > Nor does he claim to be upending the law of physics. But he does claim to be upending classical science: "The only difference between causation and value is that the word cause implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of value is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty [READ: DETERMINISM] and that cause is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles prefer to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences. Therefore when you strike cause from the language and substitute value you are not only replacing an empirically meaningless term with a meaningful one; you are using a term that is more appropriate to actual observation." (RMP, Lila, Chap. 8)
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