[MD] Chance

[Platt Holden]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [Platt had said]
> The same way I know that life is better than death. Of course, you may
> disagree.
>
> [Arlo had asked]
> And how do you "know" this?
>
> [Platt]
> From experience, of course.
>
> [Arlo]
> When did you experience "death" to know that it would not be "better"?
>


Many times. Very low quality.  In your experience has death been otherwise?

[Platt]

>
> How did you know to ask me how I know this?
>
> [Arlo]
> I have no idea what this means.
>

It means how do you know to ask a question.


>
> [Platt]
> How is language like pre-intellectual experience?
>
> [Arlo]
> Language is the use of analogy to describe pre-intellectual experience.
>
> "If it had a nervous system it would act in a much more complex way to
> overcome the poor quality of the environment. It would seek analogues, that
> is, images and symbols from its previous experience, to define the
> unpleasant nature of its new environment and thus 'understand' it." (ZMM)
>

 [Pirsig]

> "When A. N. Whitehead wrote that "mankind is driven forward by dim
> apprehensions of things too obscure for its existing language," he was
> writing about Dynamic Quality. Dynamic Quality is the pre-intellectual
> cutting edge of realty, the source of all things, completely simple and
> always new." (Lila, 9)
>

Pre-intellectual experience is too obscure for language, i.e., analogy.