[MD] moq thought experiment 1.

[MarshaV]

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>
> Squonk,?
> ?
> "Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will 
> verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is in an 
> undeniably low-quality situation: that the value of his predicament is 
> negative. This low quality is not just a vague, woolly-headed, 
> crypto-religious, metaphysical abstraction. It is an experience. It is not 
> a judgment about an experience. It is not a description of experience. The 
> value itself is an experience. As such it is completely predictable. It is 
> verifiable by anyone who cares to do so. It is reproducible. Of all 
> experience it is the least ambiguous, least mistakable there is. Later the 
> person may generate some oaths to describe this low value, but the value 
> will always come first, the oaths second. Without the primary low 
> valuation, the secondary oaths will not follow."?
> (LILA, Chapter 5)?
> ?
> The essential point, "The value itself is an experience." They are 
> synonyms. At least that is my understanding.?
> ?
> But now, I would like to read your paper comparing Nietzsche and Pirsig. 
> Please make it available.?
> ?
> Marsha
>
> Hi Marsha,
> Do you think there is such a thing as Negative Value?



Hi Squonk,

I imagine it would depend on the scale chosen for measuring, if measuring 
was the intent?

Now where is that paper comparing Nietzsche and Pirsig?

Marsha