[MD] The education of Peter Corteen

[skutvik at online.no]

Steve, welcome back!

4 Dec. you wrote:

> Hi Bo, 
> Can you point to where Pirsig says something like this?:
> "paraphrasing Pirsig: "Intellect is the power of distinguishing
> between symbols and what is symbolized."

Er ... no, I used "paraphrase" in a too wide sense. He never said 
that. I just wish he would have drawn the conclusion of his own 
reasoning which would have forced on (in the this case) the 
distinction between symbols and  what is symbolized, i.e. the 
S/O. But I'm just dreaming, Pirsig can't do it after having invested 
so much in his system of how MOQ "encases" SOM, the known 
inorg+bio=objects ...etc. and the ensuing explanations of how 
THIS does away with SOM's paradoxes (platypis). I say that the 
SOL interpretation just pertains to the 4th. level, it does, but this 
has wider ramifications among other that of doing away with 
these cumbersome things. 

Just push the button and I'll tell you more ;-)       

Bo