[Platt]
> > > 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
Platt, I don't see where your getting "...our
responses to quality are visceral rather than
intellectual, aesthetic rather than ratiionl." Even
in what you quoted above Pirsig is stating emotion is
biological, and emotion is not intellectual or social,
but nowhere do I see where Pirsig is LIMITING quality
to an emotional response. Unless your just simply
classifying that "our [emotional] responses..." are
not intellectual and thus, not rational.
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