[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[David M]

Matt
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Pirsig _likes_ evolution, he likes physics.
>  He just wants to supplement, as David put it, the "physicalist story of
> evolution" with an "experiental story of [cultural] evolution and how ever
> changing maps have dragged us up from single cell forms of life."


DM: I see no need to insert cultural. I think there is a story
to tell about what it is like to be a cell onwards, if in fact
not a story from the inorganic too. This is the MOQ need
to see all quality as implying values. Take a look at this:

http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/issues/goodwin201.htm

scientist Brian Goodwin talking about the problematic status
of the notion of dead matter.