Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Arlo] > You keep saying "I can't answer these questions", but that's simply avoidance. > > [Platt] > I don't say that. I say read Chapter 11 of Lila. There you will find your > answers. > > [Arlo] > Kindly tell me where Chapter 11 answers any of these questions. All you are > doing is evading the questions. As I said, speculate, guess, try to answer of > these questions... > > 1. Could animals ever respond to DQ? > > 2. How did their actions differ between "then" and "now"? > > 3. Is responding to DQ a matter of having specific biological features? > > 4. If so, then how did anything else ever respond to DQ? > > 5. If no, then why did animals stop responding to DQ? > > And since you now say that the social and intellectual levels are responsible > for our ability to respond to DQ, I ask these questions... > > 6. Before man (and these levels) how did things respond to DQ? > > 7. How was that different than today (for those things)? > > 8. Did animals in North America stop responding to DQ when humans in Africa > gave rise to social patterns? > > You can keep citing "Chapter 11", but it answers none of these. None. So, > again, if you want to answer ANY of these questions; speculate, guess, > whatever, please feel free to do so and I will gladly entertain this topic > longer. Otherwise, I get the picture and there is no point to go on. I mean, I > can answer ALL of them from my position. Why can't you answer from yours?
If you want to play the game of "you're avoiding my questions," perhaps you will be so good as to answer these questions you have avoided: "You seem to make two assumptions about DQ. First, that if something can't be predicted it must be a response to DQ. Second, if it moves, it must be responding to DQ. Is this correct?" And while you're at it,how about answering the passage I quoted about man responding to DQ? And while you're at it, take another look at why Pirsig doesn't want to execute criminals that aren't a threat to society. If you can't answer these questions from your position, just say so. I think you are confusing biological quality with Dynamic Quality. My position can be stated in a nutshell: Patterns of nature are static patterns of value. ------------------------------------------------- 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/
