DMB said: I mean, I like to think of things like strings, quarks, neutrons, atoms and molecules as little manifestations of consciousness. Its not the kind of consciousness we humans can easily relate to, but if preferences are expressed at the inorganic level, then a sense of value goes all the way down.
DM: Me too. All the way down. The thing I find disappointing about Pirsig's ideas on value is that I think that it could have been more linked to a shift from the view of a mechanistic cosmos to one of a process/active cosmos. If activity and event is the heart os cosmic process then the question has to arise of how activity opperates, why things go one way rather than another, how the enourmous range of possibility is reduced to this finite world (think of your own life and all the things you could have done but reduced to what you actually do/did with your life).Value is linked to this activity. Why this life rather than that, why this cosmos, this particular history? Value is the moving towards one possibility (or bowl of food) rather than another, each decision takes the cosmos one particular way, abandoning many other possible worlds, this has to link closely with all things Eros. Eros brings together what has been split apart, holding out the prospect of jumping across the SO divide, the theme of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde -something of very high Quality indeed. regards David M MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
