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[david buchanan]

ian glendinning said:
... Engineers - literally "ingenious people" - the archetypal problem 
solving pragmatists. I would say that, I am one of course ;-) and...

dmb says:
This is a bit ambiguous. Are you claiming to be an ingenious person, an 
engineer or an archetypal problem solving pragimatist? Or are you all three 
at once? In any case, you must be a heckuva guy.

ian also said:
What Pirsig brings to this is the emphasis on the levels and the dynamism, 
and effectively warns against reification - treating "objects" that inhabit 
your current level as necessarily the most significant realities to worry 
about when you're looking to understand cause and effect - the qualitative, 
zen, recursive interplay of "emergent arising".

dmb says:
And that's a heckuva sentence. Must have been engineered by a very ingenious 
person. What does it mean? I suspect it means nothing. ...As you can see, 
I'm still busting your chops on the "narcissictic drivel" thing. Complaining 
once would have been enough, but you're practically begging for it here. I 
felt obliged.

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