[MD] The Quality/MOQ dichotomy

[Ham Priday]

Hi Bo --


On 3/11, at 12:23 AM, you wrote to Andre:

> The 4th. level is NOT the thinking realm that SOM's
> "intellect" term indicates, but the Subject/Object distinction
> (in this context S=conceptual/ O=non-conceptual).

In the interest of trying (still) to comprehend your epistemology, I need 
more clarification.

Are you saying that intellect is the ability to distinguish the entities, 
objects or patterns of experience, or that it is only the ability to 
separate subject from object (as in the SOM duality)?  If the former is what 
you mean, then it is consistent with what I call "intellection" which is 
applied to value-sensibility to "actualize" or construct differentiated 
existence.  If it's only dividing the subject from its objects, I would 
suggest you really mean "self-awareness" or subjective cognizance, since 
everything else is objective.

As you know, I regard the primary division (Sensibility/Otherness) as 
pre-intellectual, in the same way that Pirsig considers Quality to be 
pre-intellectual.  Sensibility is individuated in the process of gestation, 
so that a sense of self is developed at birth, allowing the infant to 
acquire a sense of otherness from post-natal experience.  Intellection comes 
much later with the ability to form concepts.  If you disagree with this 
timeline, how would you chronicle it?

Thanks, again, Bo.  We'll give it another try.

Regards,
Ham