[MD] Julian Baggini Interview with Pirsig

[David M]

Hi Matt

Not sure what you mean by interaction. I think that the actual
being open to the possible is an interaction of great significance,
otherwise there would be no opening only eternal recurrence of
the same. The unfolding or manifesting of the possible is a form
of border crossing or extending, and where value manifests too.
We have the opportunity to select what we will manifest, all too
clearly, a heaven or a hell

DM





> David said:
> Is not DQ the boundary of the actual. The leading edge as Pirsig says. 
> That
> on which we properly remain silent. But surely as profound silence. That
> edge is not a closure, it is the horizon, the wild west, the frontier.
>
> Matt:
> Seeing your response, I'm not sure if we do have an interesting difference
> on this count.  It's either too subtle for me to see or simply verbal
> differences.  As far as I can see, saying "there is an external aspect to
> openness" is the same thing as me saying that reactions are internal, and
> those are the same as saying that DQ is "the boundary of the actual," "not 
> a
> closure," but a "horizon."  The only thing I want to warn against is
> thinking that there are interactions occuring across this boundary between
> the actual and the possible, static patterns and DQ.  The actual, static
> patterns, simply push back the boundaries, unfold into the possible's 
> space.
>  But there is no interaction between them.  I would think that to be an
> ontotheological impulse, the desire for closure that Heidegger and Pirsig
> want to guard against.  And if you're not inclined to think there are
> interactions, then I'm not sure we're saying much different.
>
> Matt
>
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