[MD] subject / object logic

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

I think Ant states it clearly in his PhD thesis:

As Pirsig rejects both mind-substance (i.e. the 'ghost') and 
matter-substance (i.e. the 'machine') oriented ontologies of the 
world, he employs one underpinned by value based events, Quality is 
considered the source of subjects and objects and can be regarded as 
a Dynamic event (1995a, p.12); an 'event at which the subject becomes 
aware of the object.'  (ZMM, 1974a, p.239)  These Quality events (or 
processes), therefore, obtain the status as the fundamental unit or 
'primitives' of the universe and provide a unity between the observer 
and the observed; knowing mind and object.

(A Critical Analysis of Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of 
Quality,2005,Watts, p.133)

Marsha