[MD] Transhumanism

[MarshaV]

Hi John,

On Jun 19, 2010, at 10:21 AM, John Carl wrote:

> 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.

When I am in the "not this, not that" mode it is a good place, and it certainly is 
a metaphysical utterance, the basis of which is indivisible, undefinable and 
unknowable: Quality.    


> 
>>> [Arlo]
>>> Then Pirsig should've written koans, and not a metaphysics.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha:
>> I think in writing ZMM and LILA, he did both.
>> 
>> 
> "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".

Geez.  There is no 'them' and 'us'.  What the heck are you saying?  


Marsha
 
 
 
 
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