[MD] seeing beyond the mirror (was: Heads or tails?)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Platt
> 
> But why this limit, is it justified?

> > Perhaps the rationale is that the MOQ defines emotions as more biological
> > than social or intellectual. "The MOQ sees emotions as a biological responses
> > to quality and not the same thing as quality." (Note 141, Lila's Child)

"From the earliest philosophical speculations to the present day, emotion has been
often seen as interfering with rationality, as a remnant of our pre-sapient
inheritance - emotions seems to represent unbridled human nature 'in the raw.'"

--from "The Oxford Companion to The Mind

Lots of theories about the source and mechanisms of human emotions, but I would
guess Pirsig is going along with them as remnants "of our pre-sapient inheritance"
and thus primarily biological. In other words, our responses to quality are 
visceral rather than intellectual, aesthetic rather than rational. That's my
interpretation anyway.

Regards,
Platt  



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