[MD] What is SOM?

[Peter Corteen]

Hi Bo,

Steve also said I had my facts mixed up about how the MoQ emerged.
Can you point me to or can you forward me copies of the e-books please.

Regards

-Peter

On 23/12/2007, skutvik at online.no <skutvik at online.no> wrote:
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> Hello Peter
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> On 23 Dec. thou spaketh
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> > Pirsig's MoQ has the secondary split of static quality into mind and
> > matter. A later split of Pirsig's was to divide mind into intellectual
> > and social ideas. One of those intellectual ideas was the evil and
> > mighty SOM. SOM is concerned with the split of reality into mind and
> > matter. Contradiction: mind and matter is the result of Pirsig's
> > beautiful secondary split in the MoQ.
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> > I think this is the platypus Bo is referring to.
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> MOQ having a secondary split into mind and matter? Who says so and
> have I declared that a platypus?  Right now I'm a bit confused.
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> > No answer from Steve yet. SA seems to have been irritated like hearing
> > someone shouting 'platypus' but he can't see it.
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> OK must be Steve, but still I cant' remember it. SA becoming irritated
> sounds more familiar ;-)
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> > Just to play devil's advocate and as a rival solution to Bo's: perhaps
> > Pirsig's primary split of reality should have been into Dynamic
> > Quality and SOM!!
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> The first proto-proto moq was in fact DQ/SOM!!!. Pre-intellectual
> Quality (DQI was followed by Intellectual Quality and the latter is the
> SUBJECT aware of OBJECTS. Thus this is no rival to the SOL
> interpretation but smack on.The final MOQ only postulates that there
> are 3 static levels before the intellectual, and had Pirsig stuck to his
> initial insight the MOQ would have been revolution, as it is  ...alas.
> Peter, you are a natural born SOList.
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> Merry Christmas
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> Bo
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