[MD] MOQ and the Future: An Inquiry into Usefulness

[Platt Holden]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:12 PM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

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> > Platt:
> > This creative force, DQ, precludes your nihilistic idea that the
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> > evolved as the result of dumb luck, or miraculously "emerged" from a
> > kind of pseudoscientific pantheistic poker game.
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> > Platt:
> > There's no evidence it is some sort of higher intelligence or acts in
> > accord with a predetermined plan.
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> > Ron:
> > So Platt which is it? no higher intellegence sounds like dumb luck to me.
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> Platt:
> None of the above. It's Quality, the "force of evolutionary creation."
> (Lila, 17} Chapter 11 pretty much explains the whole thing.
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> Ron:
> none of the above.....Chptr 11 pretty much explains how this force has no
> intentional direction
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No intentional direction?  "Natural selection is Dynamic Quality at work."
(Lila, 11)  Sounds like intentional direction to me, from amoeba to man. Or
are you, like Arlo, of the "Oops" school of evolution, or the "survival of
the fittest" school which, as Pirsig points out, doesn't say anything?

 plus I'm addressing what you are saying not Pirsig. Seems to me you are
splitting hairs as not

> to agree with Arlo about anything.

Cutting off ones nose to spite their own face so to speak.
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Fine, if that's what you think. Be my guest. You offer no evidence, however.



> I just find it odd you contradict two of your own comments, which
> incidently contradict eachother too.
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> Like what?


> How is it that you understand Pirsig better than your own opinons?
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So you think I understand Pirsig?  Thanks for the compliment, I think.

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