[MD] The SOM/MOQ discrepancy.

[Platt Holden]

Bo:
> The reason for Pirsig's saying that nothing but man responds to DQ is 
> I believe that he (correctly) regards the intellectual level as Q-
> evolution's last stage (leading edge) and that humankind's is it's sole 
> "inhabitant" here (not even all of those). The inorganic level was DQ's 
> first creation and what it immediately started to probe in an effort to 
> escape. The result was the biological level which became leading 
> edge and what "responded to DQ" .. and so on. The lower levels 
> workings are now "static responses" as I see it. Your insisting that the
> MOQ is - and will remain - an intellectual level is an example of 
> STATIC intellectual response. The thing now is to free DQ from its last 
> static creation - intellect - and let the Quality Evolution find its
> "final 
> form".  Here things kind of collapses - I admit that - but not only for
> the 
> SOL interpretation, one can't possibly envisage a new intellectual 
> pattern that contradicts the MOQ without the MOQ collapsing. OK as 
> always out on my mission. 

This is how I see it, too. Also, I don't think anyone, least of all Pirsig, 
would claim that the MOQ is the last word. At least I would hope that in 
10,000 years we would have moved on. 

Platt