[MD] The Role of Evolution, Time and Order in Pirsig's MOQ

MarshaV marshalz at charter.net
Tue Feb 10 04:30:10 PST 2009



And for Craig we must remember to clean up our differentiated space.


At 07:17 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
>Differentiate that space!
>
>2009/2/10 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
>
> >
> >
> > OMG, now I want to write about the wonders of collage.  I better go paint.
> >   Must be the full moon.
> >
> >
> > At 06:25 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Don't remember in which book a similar incident was sited, but...  I first
> >> went to collage when I was 27.  I was married and had two kids.  Both when
> >> taking calculus and a course in Fortran I dreamt of finding the 
> key to life,
> >> first with an equation, then with a program.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 06:06 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
> >>
> >>  KO,
> >>>
> >>> Thank you.  My respect for mathematics is growing.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Marsha
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> At 04:13 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I agree Marsha,
> >>>>
> >>>> people saw that things fell to the ground before Newton and, as you say,
> >>>> some referred to that tendency as 'gravity', but it seems Newton was the
> >>>> first to put some predictive numbers to it.
> >>>>
> >>>> -KO
> >>>>
> >>>> 2009/2/9 MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
> >>>>
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Thank you Bo and Ron,
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I'm going try to live with this for a while.
> >>>> >
> >>>> >
> >>>> >  [Ron:}
> >>>> >> Bo dodges the question:
> >>>> >> I did it up above. Let me ask you something. Do you understand
> >>>> >> the Newton Gravity argument in ZAMM?
> >>>> >>
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I'm not sure how you are setting up the 'argument'.   Did gravity
> >>>> exist
> >>>> > before Newton?  No.  There was no recognized pattern before Newton's
> >>>> law of
> >>>> > universal gravitation.  Although the label 'gravity' had been used
> >>>> prior to
> >>>> > Newton, and there were a bunch of men looking for a useful pattern to
> >>>> > represent it.  If you want more you'll need to set up a broader
> >>>> problem.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Marsha

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