[MD] Transhumanism

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[John]
I know what your problem is, you want it all crisply defined and pre-packaged
and fitted into text-book encapsulation so you can control it.

[Arlo]
To clarify, I am talking about the MOQ, not Quality. And yes, I do think that
evolution builds from a foundation of knowing what an author is saying. About
Quality, no, I do not want it crisply defined or any such thing. But the
metaphysics he is proposing, yes, I do think that its important to know if his
ideas about an intellectual level refer to this or that. Precisely so
disagreement and evolution can precede.

Example. I make no bones about my inclusion of certain other biological
patterns at the social level other than "man". When I say this, I know that
Pirsig said X, and I am saying Y, and so what I am saying is an expansion based
on his ideas. I am NOT arguing that Pirsig really meant to include non-humans
if you only ignore and revise some of his writings.

But that is precisely what IS happening in the majority of perennially
unchanging exchanges here. The argument is seldom about whether or not Pirsig
is right or wrong about something, but about what he meant. And he could end a
lot of that, and allow the dialogue to move into where he is right and where he
is wrong, etc.

But yeah, I suppose these are the thoughts of an evil acerdimic. :-)