[MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

[John Carl]

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> "Consciousness" is another SOM-generated platypus, the biggest of
> them all. Pirsig did not include it in his list of such that the MOQ is
> supposed to resolve, why he omitted it is, as always, his faulty
> method of subsuming SOM (inorganic and biology= objects-objective,
> social and intellect = subjects/subjective) this cumbersome exercise
> will no more explain consciousness than it explains its source: the
> mind/matter enigma.
>


Nothing can explain consciousness but consciousness;  consciousness is
self-explanatory.


> . This is what the MOQ dis-solves by its
> change of metaphysical premises and making SOM into its own
> intellectual level. We could have taught this true (SOL) MOQ that
> ZAMM hinted to hadn't it been for LILA's pulling the rug from under
> this achievement and the "academics" presenting this impotent quasi-
> moq as the real thing.
>


Here is something you've been explaining for a long time, and yet somehow
I've had great difficulty in following you.  But as I've gone along and
investigated the MoQ on my own, I've found myself at times starting to come
to some conclusions which have made me think, "This sounds like what Bodvar
has been asserting."
So we shall see where my rollercoaster train of thought leads and if I
end up on the same track.

John