[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Platt Holden]

Hi David M,

> I was thinking that what we see visually is a cut-up form
> of experience and is therefore a coded form of experience
> and a sort of language. We re-cognise the things we differentiate
> out of our total experience. And we re-cognise the quality
> of all these 'images'. As Pirsig says we do not notice all
> the aspects of experience that we might, we select even
> the aspects of experience that we notice.

You raise an interesting point that leads me to a chicken-egg question. 
Is attention itself a "value" selector, or are the images attention 
differentiates selected because of their value? Maybe a distinction 
without a difference.

In any case, like language, value tends to break up the total scene  
brought to us by our senses and our imaginations. Unlike language which 
to be meaningful must follow a grammatical pattern, values are more 
free to roam, although the always lurking pattern of survival tends to 
focus our attention mightily if something of low quality threatens us.

You can see how your "coded form of experience" has germinated some
offshoots of thought. That's what new ideas do. I congratulate you for 
giving us a new and challenging insight to ponder. 

Thanks,
Platt