[MD] the MOQ and its environment

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi Marsha 

On 26 Feb. you wrote:

> Subject/Object Metaphysics:  reality = subject & objects
 
> Metaphysics of Quality:  reality = quality
 
> Why don't YOU get this?

YOU did not comment the SOM as a "quality metaphysics" point, 
how this shows that it doesn't matter what reality is called, it's the 
divide that counts, besides it's the DQ/SQ - not only the 
reality=quality axiom - which is the MOQ.  

Nobody before Pirsig spoke of any "reality" split a particular way, 
the S/O chasm was self-evident. Likewise the Dynamic/Static will 
become self-evident in - say - a couple of centuries ;-)
  
Once more, look to the diagram page in ZMM where SOM and 
MOQ are drawn. The top box says  'reality' for the former and 
'quality (reality)' for the latter. The reality=quality is just a 
parenthesis, it's the subsequent split that sets the two apart. The 
snag is the illusion of the said top box remaining behind, it's the 
box itself which is split.

I'm puzzled why oneness means so much  - "dualism" seems a 
swear-word - and why so few appreciate the significance of the 
Dynamic/Static split compared to the S/O one. (Kevin may be the 
exception) The enormous explanatory power of the MOQ rests 
with the static levels.              

IMO

Bo