Mark, Sam and all Focusers: Mark wrote: ...your analogies, 'first baby step of the other' and 'symphony becomes a note' generates problems here dmb, because you identify a beginning point which is part of the old level. That reintroduces reductionism, which is not on. You want your cake and you want to eat it also. I feel this may be because you wish to include structure as part of the oldest idea known to man? But this has been dismissed above as a confusion between general value differentiation's and particular rational differentiation's.
dmb replies: I think you're trying way too hard to disagree. The analogies are Pirsig's. They come from a quote that was included in the post you ostensibly responded to. The "first baby step" is just a simpler way of saying "the lowest element of the lowest programming language" and the musical analogy is put in Pirsig's terms EXACTLY... "These Machine Language instructions were the final achievement toward which all the circuits aimed. They were the end performance of a whole SYMPHONY of switching operations. When he got into programming he found that this SYMPHONY of electronic circuits was considered to be a mere SINGLE NOTE in a whole other SYMPHONY that had no resemblance to the first one. ..The Machine Language Instruction Repertoire, which had been the entire design goal, was now the lowest element of the lowest level programming language." dmb continues: As for the rest of your "criticisms", I honestly don't know what you're talking about. It seems you've used my post as a platform to express your ideas about "coherence" in the MOQ. We could have a conversation about the elected topic, but I have to insist that you respond directly AND without weighing it all down with your personal theories and repetitious jargon. And I must say, your constant use the word "coherence" is extremely ironic. Thanks. P.S. Sam, my criticism was NOT that you took Pirsig's analogy literally. Not even close. Mine was centered on refuting the idea that there is anything between the levels. There is no gasket, washer, lubricant, etc. Have you any response to that criticism? Did I NOT make a good case that the analogy is aimed at illustrating the discrete nature of the levels? 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
