[MD] Heads or tails?

[Case]

[Case]
> Perception is a mental process of recording and organizing sensation into
> our existing memories and models.

[Platt]
"It is now, however, generally accepted that stored knowledge and
assumptions actively affect even the simplest perceptions." 
-- "Oxford Companion to the Mind," p.601.

[Case]
Without access to the book you are looking at it sounds like that's what I
said. 

[Platt]
Pirsig would insist that entry should have included "values" as affecting
perceptions. 

[Case]
And in so doing he is mere substituting one set of words for another.

[Platt]
Even more astonishing, Pirsig claims that what we perceive, either by
processing into existing memories and models or as affected by existing
memories and models, are static patterns of value, plus DQ.

[Case]
How is this astonishing? 

Perception is the process of integrating what we have just sensed (DQ) with
what we have experienced in the past (static patterns). 

And...?