[MD] moq thought experiment 1.

[squonkmuse at talktalk.net]

Ham:
Unfortunately, you've been conned into believing that existence is the source and precedes essence, that the patterns are real but you are not, whereas in actuality the reverse is true. You create your reality patterns, they don't create you. To the extent that Pirsig has made Quality the primary reality and dismissed the essential Self, he is an existentialist. He has simply replaced the Being of existentialism with DQ.

Hi Ham,
In an extreme sense there may be something to be said for this: radical freedom of choice could suggest that we may choose what ever we wish to describe as our reality.

However, this would also mean that essence is subject to the same radical freedom, which begs the question, how is it that essence remains stable in the face of radical freedom?

By the way Ham, i see you're published now.

squonk