[MD] What does Pirsig mean by metaphysics?

[Andre Broersen]

Bodvar to Andre:
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 :-)

Andre:
The DQ/SQ configuration is just that: it cannot be closed. It likens
itself to the Zen circle... it is open-ended. It is closed from a S/O
point of view (what else can there be?) but the MoQ has thrown this
door open by having Quality ( which is much and much more than the
handful we take from the endless beaches) as its starting point.

'static evolution' must surely be a contradiction in terms and I am
not going to make any predictions about anything 'beyond' the
intellectual level. I think that the intellectual level has, in your
definition,a too narrow a description and 'ability'.

The MoQ,the DQ/SQ instead of going 'pouf' will go 'aha'.

Told you I hadn't landed just yet :-)

Andre