[MD] Instant Karma

[Steve Peterson]

Hi Andre,

Have you heard about Godwin's Law? reductio ad hitlerum? While it 
happens here what is more common when people disagree is for one to 
accuse the other of being an SOMist. I'm still not seeing what you see 
as a problem. Maybe it would help me understand your point if you 
explained what an SOMist is to you.

As I understand it, Pirsig pursued the ghost of rationality to the root 
cause of the moral vacuousness of intellect--why it can't deal with 
values and art. He posited Quality rather than subjects and objects as 
primary reality. But subjects and objects while forever divided in SOM 
are not thrown out in the MOQ. They are reinterpreted as value levels 
and connected with one another by two other value levels. It is not 
SOMist to distinguish thoughts from referents which may mean 
intellectual patterns and inorganic, biological, or other intellectual 
pattern of experience while these thoughts themselves are also 
experience.

Best,
Steve