[MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question

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Mike, Ian & interested parties.

6 Jan. Michael Hamilton wrote:

> 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,

Thanks Mike for pointing this out. Pirsig "strove for a more 
objective view" because the MOQ emerged from the SOM and 
had to use its values/methods/terms. No-one would have 
bothered with it if Pirsig had said that he "received" it through a 
burning bush it in Montana. 

This is the SOM-MOQ perspective. If we choose the inter-MOQ 
one and accepts that the S/O divide became MOQ's 4th. level in 
this process, we see the enormous value of this stage (as Mike 
describes above) and that the MOQ - albeit no static level - builds 
on the 4th, creating the Quality reality in which all thee things are 
seen. 

> because SOM _doesn't_ work for everyone, everywhere, for all 
> time. That's why SOM is flawed. 

The issue why the S/O ...MMMM is flawed is interesting. Mike 
says that "it doesn't work for everyone which is true (I don't think 
it works for anyone who thinks about it for a moment), but the 
reason is that it is a static Q-level and all levels are flawed in the 
capacity of being static. I mean if one begins to examine the 
social level it dissolves into biology (Pirsig pointed to this in the 
Paul letter) Biology dissolves into "inogany", no one has ever 
found the dead/living dividing line, and inorganic patterns 
dissolves into dynamic chaos as  Quantum Mech. shows.  But as 
a static value, intellect's S/O works splendidly. 

> 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.

Amen! 

Bo