[MD] neener neener

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Bo,


> Bo before:,
>> > Has it evaded you, Steve, that Pirsig forcefully (almost too much of
>> > a good thing) rejects the "thinking intellect" in the Paul Turner
>> > letter? That includes "thinking about thinking"
>
> Steve:
>> Intellect includes but is not limited to thinking about thinking.
>> Intellect is simply thinking.
>
> Are you on "auto" mode?  Pirsig REJECTS the thinking (=mind)
> definition of intellect. In addition he says that it's no use speaking
> about the 4th. level much before the Greeks*). And "Greeks" spells
> SOM. In other words Intellect=SOM!

>From PT letter:
"The argument that the MOQ is not an intellectual formulation but some
kind of other level is not clear to me. There is nothing in the MOQ
that I know of that leads to this conclusion."