[MD] Transhumanism

[John Carl]

I agree Marsha, and I was thinking some of the charges of "confusing" flying
around here might stem from the fact that people are oriented differently
and helped at times by koans, and other times metaphysical explication.

The problem arises when they read the koans as metaphysical explication, and
vice versa.

Like I sometimes have a problem with your "not this, not that" because I'm
reading it as metaphysics, when actually its more of a koanic formulation
than a metaphysical one.


> > [Arlo]
> > Then Pirsig should've written koans, and not a metaphysics.
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> Marsha:
> I think in writing ZMM and LILA, he did both.
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"How did you know to fix the light at the switch?"

"It was just obvious."

"It wasn't obvious to me."

"Well... you need some underlying knowledge."

"Then it WASN'T obvious, eh?"

Now some people find that sort of dialogue confusing - I term such people
"them".  The people who find it illuminating, I call "us".