[MD] Is Morality innate in the cosmos?

[David M]

>
> Scott:
> I'm not saying the human intellect does not create concepts. It does. I'm
> saying that non-human intellect creates concepts as well, that creativity 
> in
> general, human and otherwise, can be seen as acts of intellect. However, I
> try to take this in a non-theistic way. I am not saying that there is a
> being that creates nature as an act of nature. More like nature creates
> itself intellectually, consciously, and meaningfully.
>
> If you haven't already noticed, this is not the MOQ. So if you are 
> primarily
> interested in finding out about the MOQ, please ignore all this.
>
>



DM: That is Scott's v iew. I think that the idea of DQ bringing about the 
achievement
of the levels via value based activity does imply this, Pirsig simply choses 
not to talk
about this in terms of 'intelligence'. DQ is offering something between 
intelligent design
(too deterministic) and evolution by random mutation & selection (limited to 
life and not
very convincing in terms of creating enough useful variety to select from).