At 02:36 AM 5/10/2007, you wrote: >Emotions are biological responses to stimuli. However, they are deeply >influenced by inorganic, social, and intellectual static patterns. The >higher levels should restrict emotions only to a degree so that overall >stability of the being is maintained. Pirsig talks about "care", which is >surely a biological pattern, which I understand as being in need of >receiving proper direction/guidance. The intellect should, by office of its >faculties, direct all the other patterns as much as it can. That is the >first rule -- that the higher level tries to "rule" the lower ones. This is >why I sometimes think that Pirsig should have created a formal MoQ >constitution which explains the hierarchy of the metaphysics.
Greetings Akshay, What do you think at those other times, and why? Marsha 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/
