[MD] Food for Thought

[david buchanan]

DMB said:
its seems obvious to me that SOM represents a flaw in the intellect and that 
the repair job can only be done by intellect

Arlo replied:
This I'm not so sure about. Can a non-S/O intellect rest atop an S/O mythos? 
Although Pirsig didn't make the S/I distinction, per se, in ZMM, he seems to 
argue their that change has to begin with how people live their daily lives, 
with everyday experience. Although, yes, if ZMM (or the MOQ) are 
intellectual patterns, and they are attempting to reorder social patterns of 
value, then it is, I suppose, an attempt by intellect to repair an S/O heavy 
foundation. Hmm...

dmb says:
I was also thinking about those passages where Pirsig talks about the way 
intellect can slice up reality in all sorts of ways. I suppose its a little 
too easy to butcher things if one is not careful, but basically I'm just 
impressed with the notion that chopping things up into subjects and objects 
is just one of many ways to slice it. That analytic knife can carve all 
sorts of things and the only question is how well does it work. Likewise, 
the map analogy says that the very same landscape can be represented in more 
than one way. This sort of flexibility leads me to conclude that SOM is 
something like a particular species of intellect.

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