[MD] Reading & Comprehension

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On 12 Jun 2010 at 8:15, skutvik at online.no wrote:

Agree 100 %, but as you point to it's terrible difficult to undo the SOM 
as our reference frame. What Andre understand with intellect is not 
the 4th. level, but the mental compartment known as MIND and you 
can't have mind without matter, subject without object ...etc. and SOM 
is back. I don't know if you will go all the way, but IMO the 
Quality/MOQ meta-metaphysics is the culprit. 

Hi Bo,

If by Quality/MOQ being the culprit you mean categorizing the MOQ as just 
another metaphysics, I'm with you. If you put the MOQ in the same mental 
container as materialism, idealism, existentialism, essentialism, determinism, 
naturalism, monism, nihilism and the hundred and one other theories of reality, 
you have the ingredients for philosophology, the playground of academics of 
little significance. But if you understand what Pirsig talks about as being 
reality itself and not a filter needed to discuss it, we're on the same page.

Roger Scruton, a English philosopher, recently penned a marvelous description 
of SOM. 

"The Cartesian picture tempts us to believe we go through life dragging an 
animal on a lead, forcing it to do our bidding until at last it collapses and 
dies. I am I. It is it. In this way the body becomes a thing among other 
things."

How much more illuminating, harmonious and "real" to know oneself as a being of 
unique value.

Best,
Platt