[MD] What all is about.

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Ron Kulp <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>:

[Ron]
> Science observes and creates from observation
> Art observes and creates from observation.
> 
> The difference seems to lie within precision in relation to function.

Hi Ron, Ham:

Pirsig also explained the why science and art are unified in contrast
to Ham's view that the two pursuits have little in common:

"In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance art was defined as high quality
endeavor. I have never found a need to add anything to that definition. But one of
the reasons I have spent so much time in this paper describing the personal
relationship of Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr in the development of quantum theory
is that although the world views science as a sort of plodding, logical methodical
advancement of knowledge, what I saw here were two artists in the throes of creative
discovery. They were at the cutting edge of knowledge plunging into the unknown
trying to bring something out of that unknown into a static form that would be of
value to everyone. As Bohr might have loved to observe, science and art are just two
different complementary ways of looking at the same thing. In the largest sense it is
really unnecessary to create a meeting of the arts and sciences because in actual
practice, at the most immediate level they have never really been separated. They
have always been different aspects of the same human purpose." (SODV Paper)

Like other divisions intellect imposes on direct experience, at the higher level
of Quality the divisions collapse into one.

Regards,
Platt   





 



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