[Platt]
> 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?
These are interesting questions, which help
outline that we are bringing to this dialogue certain
pre-concepts that need critiqued. Arlo might be
correct or incorrect, but asking for clarity will help
decide this.
[Platt]
> I can no more answer these questions than you can
> answer when animals first
> became animals, or cats first became cats. But if
> you read Pirsig's chapter 11
> in Lila, you'll find a full explanation of the
> evolutionary process.
Just stating, well "...if your read Pirsig's
chapter 11..." doesn't answer the question, for we all
read the book. We refer to the book over and over
again, but we are trying to learn about an experience
Pirsig had and we will probably also figure out stuff
that Pirsig never did figure out for we each have our
unique experience. This has come up here before. To
quote Pirsig doesn't always explain ones point.
[Platt]
> Elevating man is exactly what the MOQ does in the
> evolutionary moral heirarchy
> explicated in the MOQ. Don't you recall Pirsig's
> statement that man is
> absolutely preferable to a fatal germ? Why? Because
> man is higher on the moral
> evolutionary ladder. Far from re-trenching to S/O,
> elevating man is the
> essence of a value metaphysics.
Platt, this is what you think and value. Biology
values biology, and may value intellect, but if
biology completely valued intellect alone, then it
would not be biological, it would be intellect. Does
this make sense to anybody else?
woods,
SA
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