[MD] What is SOM?

[Krimel]

[Platt]
I'm afraid your finger points in only one direction -- down. Such 
reductionism can be helpful at times, but it utterly fails, as Pirsig said, 
to answer, "Why does any life survive?" 

Maybe you should take another look at the direction Pirsig's finger points.

[Krimel]
Ok I was wrong. I overestimated your ability to even tell which way his
finger points. Pirsig clearly begins at the lower levels and points up. I
began a rather detailed account of how the levels emerge from one another
not long ago. It addressed why this happens and what are some of the
critical features of each level that make them different. It does answer
some of the childish "Whys?" you keep asking if not completely then
certainly with more precision than your "Poof" answer.

It can be found in the archives at:
http://lists.moqtalk.org/htdig.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/2008-August/02738
9.html

It was posted Aug. 17 at 13:05:46 pm 2008