[MD] Chance

[Ham Priday]

 Krimel asked dmb:
> What sort of experiences do you think transcend sensory experience?
> What exactly comes wandering through this door you think you are
 > opening?

dmb replies:
> Value. Quality. A shift in consciousness, a mystical experience.
> There are all sorts of powerful and meaningful experiences that
> don't come through the sense organs. I think Pirsig is drawing
> attention to something we all do all the time, even if we usually
> fail to notice it.  It is a sense of quality, a sense that's always
> working and accompanies just about every sight and sound we
> ever saw or heard, an immediate impression or feeling for the
> quality of the situation. This can be positive, negative or something
> in between.  I mean, this sense of value does not mean we simply
> find goodness everywhere.  It is more like a claim that all
> experience has an aesthetic quality and that this perception is
> just as real as any other perception. We might tempted to call this
> a sixth sense, but I think its more like the first sense, the most basic,
> immediate and primary mode of experience.

Is this really YOU, David?  You must have had some kind of epiphany!  I 
couldn't have expressed it better myself.  You've left me overwhelmed and 
speechless.

Regards,
Ham