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

[David M]

Hi Platt

I guess I am thinking along the lines,
being explored in some places, of emotional intelligence.
It has some value I think.

David M

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


> 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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