[MD] What is SOM?

[Heather Perella]

> SA previously:  You don't understand, you find it confusing.  And I
> asked, if a
> scientist finds something confusing, do they just brush it
> off and say, oh
> that's confusing and "I find them laughable."
>  Isn't that an example of what
> Kuhn referred to as anamolies, and so your cultivating
> anamolies with your
> pigeon-holing.  We all pigeon-hole reality, and learning is
> something we do
> to break out of our pigeon-hole.  Your confused about
> "experience", and what
> experience means, not I.  What am I and others
> understanding that your not?
> Maybe we're all crazy, but have you really tried to
> understand what Pirsig
> means by "experience".  Have you searched, even
> with the browser "Find" in
> your Word documentation for the word "experience"
> in ZMM and Lila to find
> out how Pirsig uses the concept?  And even if you go on and
> still don't
> understand what "experience" means in the moq,
> and others argue against how
> you are trying to define "experience", then
> wouldn't this mean your
>  definition of "experience" is incomplete?  Maybe
> ours is incomplete and
> we've gone off the deep end, but we are understanding
> something your not.
> Not to say you understand something I don't understand.
>  Experience is not
> just subject, but also object.  Experience is an event. 
> Not saying this
> thinking, "Oh, you'll get it now."  I thought
> I'd provide some definition,
> instead of only pointing out that your confused.
> 
> [Krimel]
> You are probably right maybe a little stroll in the forest
> would clear
> things up for me. Problem is every time I try to get into
> the forest all
> these trees seem to be in the way.

SA:  Fish swim and the sky is blue.


SA