[MD] Knowledge as MOQ's intellect

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Bo,

You said to DM:
> ... do you agree with my analysis of the said passage
> from LILA, that it (by many twists and turns) shows that SOM is
> the intellectual level? All of it, every last bit?


Similarly in Lila's Child you said, "A while back, we spoke about the  
emergence
of intellect and I said that in a way Subject/Object Metaphysics  
could be seen as identical to the intellectual level of the MOQ!"

As I'm sure you are aware, Pirsig responded to your equating the  
intellectual level with SOM in Lila's Child:
"43. This seems too restrictive. It seems to exclude non-subject- 
object constructions such
as symbolic logic, higher mathematics, and computer languages from  
the intellectual
level and give them no home. Also the term “quality” as used in the  
MOQ would be
excluded from the intellectual level. In fact, the MOQ, which gives  
intellectual meaning
to the term quality, would also have to be excluded from the  
intellectual level.
If we just say the intellect is the manipulation of language-derived  
symbols for
experience these problems of excessive exclusion do not seem to occur."

How do you respond to his critique?

Regards,
Steve