[MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey

[Ian Glendinning]

Had time to read this piece more reflectively over the weekend DMB.
Your "thinking out loud" is excellent stuff.

I think this is key, ... after you have described the "non-explicit"
thinking process in the classic tooth and claw predator survival case
of evolution ... the simple intentional (as if) view of causation is
shorthand for a whole lot of activities on many levels and timescales
... you say ...

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the word "expedient" almost has to be vague
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This is exactly what Pirsig is saying when he says that value /
quality "must remain undefined" ? Pragmatically, these values cannot
be pre-judged, prior to the hindsight of the evolutionary process. Our
framework / world-view must not be (MoQ is not) prejudicial to that
process.

Regards
Ian