[MD] Animate vs inanimate

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ham Priday <hampday1 at verizon.net>:

  Platt insists that his cat has self-awareness and
> makes value judgments, etc.  I think this stems from Pirsig's doctrine that
> all things -- animal, vegetable, and mineral -- possess some form of
> awareness.  I've stated before that I believe he felt it necessary to
> incorporate experience, if not awareness, into the reality that he calls
> Quality.

Corrrection. I do not claim my cat, UTOE, is self-aware -- that he knows that
he knows. Nor does Pirsig support the idea that that all things -- animal,
vegtable and mineral -- possess awareness. I cited the example of a rock, a
mineral, being a heap, not a holon. Heaps are not aware. Finally, experience
(awareness) is not incorporated into reality. It is reality. Ham seems to 
believe reality is something "out there," forgetting that there is no "out
there" without and "in here," both of which originate in the indivisible "now."

Platt
   

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