[MD] Metaphysical issues: DQ

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Chris]
> Stable patterns is the only thing we can talk about in any meaningful 
> manner, since we are stable patterns.

This is a dubious inference.  Can machines only talk about machinery;
animals about animals; Scandinavians about Scandinavia?
Anyway, there are too many counter-examples.  E.g., Pirsig talks
meaningfully about DQ in "Lila" & "SODV".

[Chis]
> Thus it follows that no thing, no system, nothing that we can talk about 
> or even clearly visualise can be, or have, DQ.

Well, that claim didn't last long.
Craig