[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:

> > [Krimel]
> > Odd then that the emergent hierarchy Pirsig comes up with follows a 
> > clearly scientific path of development from the inorganic to the 
> > intellectual. 
> 
> [Platt]
> So, science is on a path now with a goal somewhere ahead? Or is it a path
> to nowhere? An while you're at it, please identify the force behind the 
> "development." Atomic, magnetic, gravity? What?
> 
> [Krimel]
> Science is a human activity fraught with human aspirations and goals and
> purposes. These arise in us. As for the driving force? Change.

Are humans with their aspirations, goals and purposes not included in your universe? 
But, answer the question. What is the force behind evolutionary change?

> [Platt]
> No, I don't like the answers because they make no sense. Thought arises from
> the complexity of neural synapses? Yeah, right.
> 
> [Krimel]
> Possibly not, in your case.

Funny, but I consider your synapses defective at times, too. 


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