[MD] Intuitive Reasoning?

[MarshaV]

At 09:02 PM 10/1/2006, Ham wrote:

>Marsha, if perceiving otherness is a "habit", it's a pretty significant one,
>since everything we experience is an other to us.  I notice the MoQers
>constantly analyzing that other in terms of levels, patterns, symbols,
>intellectual abstractions, etc., in order to explain it.
>
>You are correct, Gav, that "there is no 'other' in undivided experience".
>That means there is no divided 'other' (being) unless it is made aware.  It
>suggests to me that Creation is a primary division of the Source (call it
>Quality or Essence) into proprietary Sensibility (awareness) and insensible
>Beingness, with Value serving as the connnection between them.  So in order
>to experience a being (object) it must be divided.  Likewise, each
>"self-conscious awareness" is divided from every other.  Existence is a
>differentiated reality in that every experienced object is different from
>every other, and so is every experiencing subject.  Thus, the specific forms
>and properties of the objects are constructed by the individual intellect
>using the brain and nervous system as their  "designer".   Pirsig has
>"intellectually" divided otherness into levels and patterns, but he hasn't
>accounted for its cause or division.
>
>Do you see what I mean?
>
>Appreciate the questions.

Ham,

Yes, at times it can seem to be pretty significant.  But I do not 
experience things as definitively divided as you.  I experience more 
overlap upon overlap upon overlap.  I appreciate, though, your quest 
to explain and glue things back together.

Marsha