[MD] Patterns

[David M]

Hi

Surely a rock recurs, just by going on being
a rock, it repeats its rockness over time, a diachronic
rather than synchronic pattern/repeat. 

DM


> Jorge:
> Recurrence, from verb recur in its senses of: "to
> happen, come up or show up repeatedly". 
> 
>     In this sense of recurrence, [&$#]  is Not a
> pattern; neither is this: [&$#&$#&$#]. It starts to
> look like a pattern only when the number of
> repetitions is (sufficiently) large, like in this for
> instance:
> 
> [&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#&$#]   
> for here, the unit [&$#] keeps happening, showing up
> or coming up "repeatedly". 
> 
>    From this point of view a rock is not a pattern, a
> thought is not a pattern, a pipe is not a pattern, a
> value is not a pattern. In my view, an important
> distinction. Ron writes for instance (in an answer to
> SA): 
> 
> "DOES NOT Pirsig state that subjects, objects, trees,
> rocks, You, me, are all patterns of value?" 
> 
>  To which I can only say that, if he did write that,
> he wasn't talking about patterns in the sense I am
> talking about here; this sens reflects, I think, the
> common-use sense of the word.  
> 
> Ron:
> Hello Jorge,
> A rock is a pattern of energy. Energy in the pattern of atoms
> Repeated in its configurations as molecules. It modulates as
> It repeats in time and structure radiating and absorbing energy.
> It most certainly is a collection of patterns in flux.
> Pirsig states that value creates patterns, all static patterns.
> Rocks included as well as thoughts about rocks.
> 
> This was the big epiphany. I still don't see why SA and Magnus
> Are giving me so much resistance on this.
> 
> 
> Pirsig ties MoQ with Quantum theory in his SDOV paper.
> MoQ covers the entire universe. Every last bit.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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