[MD] What is SOM?

[Matt]

[Pirsig]
What, after
all, is the likelihood that an atom possesses within its own
structure enough information to build the city of New York?

[Matt]
Is this a question of likelihood? There are trillions of atoms that make up
New York, each atom only has to hold its own space. The mind is composed of
billions of atoms as well, so why not?


On 12/19/07, craigerb at comcast.net <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> [Pirsig, courtesy Steve]
> "A conventional subject-object metaphysics uses the same four static
> patterns as the Metaphysics of Quality, dividing them into two groups
> of two: inorganic-biological patterns called "matter," and social-
> intellectual patterns called "mind."...Everything has got to be object or
> subject, substance or non-substance, because that's the primary
> division of the universe.  Inorganic-biological patterns are composed
> of "substance," and are therefore "objective."  Social-intellectual
> patterns are not composed of "substance" and are therefore called
> "subjective."
>
> Is the mind/matter distinction the same as the subjective/objective?
> Or are the distinctions the same within MOQ but not within SOM?
>
> [Pirsig, via Steve again]
> "So what the Metaphysics of Quality concludes is that all schools are
> right on the mind-matter question.  Mind is contained in static
> inorganic patterns.  Matter is contained in static intellectual
> patterns."
>
> This has always seemed a slip of the tongue to me.  Does anyone else think
> so?
> Craig
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