[Ron](previously0
Platt, I just finished reading Lila chptr 13 again and I misinterpreted
the snip you sent.
I'd like to retract this statement and re-enstate what I read in it's
context.
Pirsig stated the levels "moral code" was unrelated to other levels
"moral code"
I agree only that instead of using the term "unrelated" I'd choose
non-interchangeable.
A moral code at the subatomic level surely would not work at the social
level.
Much the same way topos theory states that a specific algebra would only
apply to A particular topos. Pirsig did'nt say they did not relate to
one another he said You can't interchange or use one set of moral codes
to apply to the whole.
(snip)
"Then when he got into programming he found that this symphony of
electronic circuits was considered to be a mere single note in a whole
other symphony that had no resemblance to the first one. The gating
circuits, the rise and decay times, the margins for voltage levels, were
gone. Even his banks of flip-flops had become 'registers.' Everything
was seen from a pure and symbolic world of logical relationships that
had no resemblance at all to the 'real' world he had worked in. The
Machine Language Instruction Repertoire, which had been the entire
design goal, was now the lowest element of the lowest level programming
language. Most programmers never used these instructions directly or
even knew what they meant."
Although both the circuit designer and the programmer knew the meaning
of the instruction, 'Load Accumulator,' the meaning that each knew was
entirely different from the other's. Their only relationship was that of
analogy. A register is analogous to a bank of flip-flops. A change in
voltage level is analogous to a change in number. But they are not the
same. Even in this narrow isthmus between these two sets of static
patterns called 'hardware' and 'software' there was still no direct
interchange of meaning. The same machine language instruction was a
completely different entity within two different sets of patterns.
On top of this low-level programming language was a high-level
programming language, FORTRAN or COBOL in those days, which had the same
kind of independence from the low-level language that the low-level
language had from electronic circuits. And on top of the high-level
language was still another level of patterns, the application, a novel
perhaps in a word-processing program. And what amazed him most of all
was how one could spend all of eternity probing the electrical patterns
of that computer with an oscilloscope and never find that novel." Lila
pg 73 chpter 13
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