[MD] What does Pirsig mean by metaphysics?

[David Thomas]

Bo,
>>[Andre]
>> Pirsig does not want his metaphysics to be another prison. Hence the
>> DQ/SQ divisions... and (if you like) the notion of the continuation of
>> evolutionary progress (which is 'open-ended'). That is: it remains
>> provisional.
> [Bo]
> Objections!. The Quality Universe is "bigger" than the S/O one
> because it has swallowed it, but it is closed. In retrospect the static
> evolution ended with the realization of it all being a Quality evolution -
> i.e. the MOQ - no level beyond the intellectual is possible and - most
> important - no "intellectual pattern" (in the faulty sense of the MOQ
> being an intellectual pattern) is possible without  the MOQ going pouf!
> Don't let your "flying" tendencies get the best of you :-)
[Dave]
I'd like to hear a deeper explanation of your views on this. Two points to
ponder. Historically at least it seems that evolution just continues to
evolve. So isn't it possible at some point in the future another level could
evolve? And shouldn't a metaphysical system be flexible enough to handle
that?
Second doesn't the mystical part of Buddhism already claim that there is a
transcendent experience beyond intellect?

Just thinking

Dave