[MD] Chance

pholden at davtv.com pholden at davtv.com
Tue May 13 17:06:50 PDT 2008


Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:


> [Platt]
> Pirsig explains what this means: "Because of his different metaphysical 
> orientation Phaedrus saw instantly that those seemingly trivial, 
> unimportant, "spur of the moment" decisions that Mayr was talking about, 
> the decisions that directed the progress of evolution are, in fact. Dynamic 
> Quality itself. Dynamic Quality, the source of all things, the pre-
> intellectual cutting edge of reality, always appears as "spur of the 
> moment" Where else could it. appear?" (Lila, 11)
> 
> [Krimel]
> Thanks for pointing this out it is exactly what I have been saying; DQ _is_
> the "spur of the moment" chance event. And the summation of those chance
> events is the source of all thing, etc. 

Where do you see "chance event" in the passage? 

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