[MD] Social Imposition ?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [DMB]
> I would defy anyone here to conceive of any thing in the universe that is not
> BOTH an individual and also part of larger, collective entity.
> 
> [Platt]
> Mind. There is no collective mind.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Sure there is. The Mythos, Pirsig calls it.
> 
> "Religion isn’t invented by man. Men are invented by religion. Men invent
> responses to Quality, and among these responses is an understanding of what
> they themselves are. You know something and then the Quality stimulus hits and
> then you try to define the Quality stimulus, but to define it all you’ve got
> to work with is what you know. So your definition is made up of what you know.
> It’s an analogue to what you already know. It has to be. It can’t be
> anything else. And the mythos grows this way. By analogies to what is known
> before. The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues.
> These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every
> last bit of it." (ZMM)

I spent the last 20 minutes searching for the word "mind" in the above passage.
Perhaps you can point out to me.






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