[MD] Food for Thought

[david buchanan]

Case and y'all:

Case said:
Lopping off the TITs is what makes the MOQ in essence wholly subjective. It 
is resolving the duality by simply denying half of it. If you shut one eye 
you get a different picture of reality and in the Land of the Blind you can 
still be King.

dmb says:
The MOQ is "in essence wholly subjective"!? Okay, now I'm starting to think 
that you have not read Pirsig's books. In Lila you will find him referring 
to the subjective self as completely ridiculous, as a fictional entity. 
Likewise, William James (in his Essays on Radical Empiricism) humorously 
claims that the Kantian self built by philosophers is made of an essence 
called "breath". Using medical terms, he says this "breath" is the sort that 
comes out of one's nose. He's saying the subjective self is a bunch of hot 
air. See, by rejecting the assumptions of SOM as a starting point, both the 
subjective self and the objective TiTs are already taken out of the 
equation. Or rather, their primary metaphysical status is taken away and 
they are reconcieved as secondary, as assumptions rather that the "real" 
starting points of experience. But seriously, how can you have read Pirsig 
and still say the MOQ is wholly subjective? Is that some kind of joke? Are 
you drunk?

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