[MD] What Bo Doesn't Get

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Matt,

Matt said:
> 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.

Steve:
Yep. Bo has metaphysics-reality confusion alright.  I've definitely
heard him say things like "SOM was reality but now the MOQ is
reality." (I have no idea what sort of confusion leads to his
statement that "no level knows the Q-context.")