[MD] What does Pirsig mean by metaphysics?

[Krimel]

Dave,
Oddly, I agree with most of this. It is an excellent post. I have a question
and a comment.

The question:
You say:
The unpatterned experience, for example, can be called the undifferentiated
aesthetic continuum, the pre-conceptual reality, the primary empirical
reality, pure experience, pre-reflective experience, immediate experience,
noncognitive experience, pre-verbal experience, the immediate flux of life
and the cutting edge of experience.

I ask: 
What's left over? What you have here seems like more than 90% of human
experience. The rest of experience you describe as, "...static, conceptual,
verbal, cognitive, reflective, intelligible and differentiated." Isn't that
mostly just the idle chatter our verbal brain does to pass the time while
the non-verbal part is living and keeping us alive, driving us to the store,
talking to our spouses, washing the dishes...

How does you unpatterned experience differ from Freud's unconscious or
Gazzanaga's non-conscious? 

The comment:
I like your focus on the affective domain. Affective science has exploded;
beginning with Paul Eckman's research in the 1970s. I think you would
benefit from the podcast cited below. Keltner has a quirky voice and an
enthusiastic style. He worked with Eckman and has done his own research into
things like smiling nuns and the blush.

Regardless of your philosophical position I think you would be well served
by this. I really don't think it conflicts with what you are saying but even
if you think it does you would be in a better position to say why.

Human Emotion Podcast 
webcast.berkeley Course - Psych 156  
by Dacher Keltner

This course will examine two different theoretical perspectives on emotion:
(1) the differential emotions approach with its strong evolutionary
grounding, and (2) the social constructionist approach. Next, the course
will investigate empirical research on many facets of emotion including
facial expression, physiology, appraisal, and the lexicon of emotion.
Finally, we will consider more specific topics including social interaction,
culture, gender, personality, and psychopathology.

http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Self-Development/Emotional-Development/H
uman-Emotion-Podcast/19719