[MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question

David M davidint at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jan 6 10:36:31 PST 2006


Mike

I think the MOQ works very nicely. But I doubt
everyone agrees.

DM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hamilton" <thethemichael at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question


> Ian,
> 
> Phew! Light at the end of the tunnel.
> 
> And this is what Bo's been saying. The constant striving for
> objectivity, which pervades all 4th-level activity, isn't limited to
> discovering properties of Cartesian matter. In the widest sense, the
> objective perspective is the perspective of 'true for everyone,
> everywhere, for all time'. In this wide sense of objectivity, Pirsig
> strove for a more objective view than SOM, because SOM _doesn't_ work
> for everyone, everywhere, for all time. That's why SOM is flawed. The
> MOQ is objectively true, NOT because it corresponds to a reality
> outside our heads, but because it works for everyone, everywhere, for
> all time.
> 
> Here's to the new objectivity.
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> On 1/5/06, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> Well put ...
>> The "new objecivity" includes the subject interacting with it.
>> (That good 'ol Subject-Interaction-Object triplet.)
>>
>> My kinda language-play.
>> Redefining objectivity.
>> We are one.
>>
>> Whoohoo.
>> A good day all round, in the end.
>> (Don't ask.)
>> Ian
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