[MD] What Bo Doesn't Get

[Matt Kundert]

Steve said to Mati about Bo's understanding the MoQ:
You suppose that metaphysics is a fundamental 
intellectual pattern that all other intellectual patterns 
depend upon. I don't see it that way. I suppose that 
"simply thinking" (intellect) must have preceded "thinking 
about thinking" (metaphysics).

Matt:
This might be the most succinct way I've seen in putting 
the problem many have sensed in Bo's SOLAQI 
interpretation of the MoQ.  I'm jealous.

In particular, it points at it at a level of generality that 
suggests a warning to others as well--remember that 
metaphysics, even the ones that we create (including 
Pirsig's MoQ, even when it's not Bo's MoQ), is not an 
undergirding to reality.  Another way of putting it is that 
we should avoid architectural metaphors (foundations, 
structures, undergirders) in our articulation of what we 
are doing for this reason--it tends to inflate the 
importance of what we are doing, even to the point of a 
full-on confusion of metaphysics for reality.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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