[MD] Julian Baggini Interview with Pirsig

[Scott Roberts]

Bo et al,

Bo quoted Pirsig:
    "The foundations are okay, in fact they are rock-solid, but we never
    got to discuss them".

They are, but if Baggini would have been much wiser?

Scott:
Are they? Granted that value is real, how does one get from that to saying 
that value is the ultimate constituent of everything? For example, if there 
was once nothing but inorganic patterns, how do we know they were inorganic 
patterns of value? Why couldn't value have emerged from a value-less 
universe? (Please note that I am playing Devil's Advocate here, since I 
happen to agree that value, aka consciousness, aka intellect is omnipresent, 
but I am under no illusion that I can make this self-evident to the 
skeptic.)

- Scott