Re: [MD] On Pirsig's letter to Paul Turner

2016-07-27 Thread Dan Glover
Tuukka, all, On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Tuukka Virtaperko wrote: > Dan, > > > > >> >>> Anyway, the above Pirsig quote inspires me to modify the model. >>> Unfortunately my attempt to do so produced a jungle of hypotheses that >>> has >>> been too complicated to

Re: [MD] On Pirsig's letter to Paul Turner

2016-07-27 Thread Adrie Kintziger
What you wrote above Tuukka,only seems to be individual based only,--but in fact it is a well known problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz You schould read 'Tropic of cancer', and the rest of Miller,and also consider that in fact the core theme of what you wrote is in essence,

[MD] On Pirsig's letter to Paul Turner

2016-07-27 Thread Craig Erb
[Craig] > IMHO DNA is an inorganic pattern [as is carbon], so they are inappropriate > for distinguishing the two respective levels. [Dan] > A genetic code is peculiar to the biological level whereas carbon is not. You need to know what pattern is at the biological level before you can