Hi Platt I guess I am thinking along the lines, being explored in some places, of emotional intelligence. It has some value I think.
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [MD] seeing beyond the mirror (was: Heads or tails?) > Quoting David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Platt >> >> But why this limit, is it justified? > >> > Perhaps the rationale is that the MOQ defines emotions as more >> > biological >> > than social or intellectual. "The MOQ sees emotions as a biological >> > responses >> > to quality and not the same thing as quality." (Note 141, Lila's Child) > > "From the earliest philosophical speculations to the present day, emotion > has been > often seen as interfering with rationality, as a remnant of our > pre-sapient > inheritance - emotions seems to represent unbridled human nature 'in the > raw.'" > > --from "The Oxford Companion to The Mind > > Lots of theories about the source and mechanisms of human emotions, but I > would > guess Pirsig is going along with them as remnants "of our pre-sapient > inheritance" > and thus primarily biological. In other words, our responses to quality > are > visceral rather than intellectual, aesthetic rather than rational. That's > my > interpretation anyway. > > Regards, > 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/ > 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/
