[MD] What does Pirsig mean by metaphysics?

[markhsmit]

On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:53:21 AM, Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com> wrote:
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...
Krimel,
By Jove I think you've got it!  It is exactly the same (but different).  Read up on Zen and you'll
see why.
Mark