[MD] Science Wars

[Platt Holden]

Hey Andre:

> Platt to Andre:
> DQ is sometimes confused with biological quality.
> 
> Hi Platt, I hope that the passage '...It is a part of man's nature and
> the
> nature of all things which can be counted on always as a guide for life
> at
> any time or place under all circumstances, because it alone is neither
> partial nor transitory' which I took from Northrop, did not lead you to
> think that I confused 'human nature' with biological quality.
> 
> Far from it. As I understand the pasage, Northrop is suggesting that we
> all
> carry within ourselves part of the undifferentiated aesthetic
> continuum,(to
> guide us) which Pirsig, in turn has used to suggest that we are the
> patterns
> i.e. we are differentiated (parts of) the undifferentiated aesthetic
> continuum DQ. Biological quality is only part of this.
> 
> Unless I misunderstand your reminder.

Just wanted to make sure that "human nature" wasn't the same as "nature," --
the latter being the tooth and claw of the biological level and quantum 
strangeness of the inorganic level. As Katherine Hepburn said to Humphrey 
Bogart in the movie  African Queen, "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what God put us 
here on earth to rise above."   

Warm regards,
Platt

Platt