[MD] Reductionism

[MarshaV]

At 08:44 PM 6/9/2009, John wrote:

>In summation:  Is the "undifferentiated aesthetic continuum" the source of
>everything, or is the source of everything a DIFFERENTIATED aesthetic
>continuum?
>
>Differentiated or Undifferentiated?
>
>I say, differentiated.  Otherwise entropy and chaos would be the rule and we
>wouldn't be.  Pirsig makes it pretty plain which way he leans on the
>question.  But I don't even take HIS word for everything.  I want consensus
>here.  Give it to me now.
>
>Analogies with chewing gum and hot stoves, not needed.
>
>John the pushy Idealist

Greetings John,

This stopped me even as I wrote it yesterday:  Differentiated or 
Undifferentiated?  I came to the conclusion it was  both, like the 
Buddhist's two truths, or emptiness is form and form is 
emptiness.  They are mutually dependent.  The differentiated comes 
from and returns to the undifferentiated.


Marsha






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