[MD] Emotions

[Andre Broersen]

Squonk to Andre:
The underlying reality of the scientist is, I would suggest,
sanctioned by emotions.

It may be more appropriate to think about a Romantic/Classic
continuum; without the more fundamental Romantic there can be no
additional Classic art.

Is RMP suggesting there is an ?experience? that is not emotional?
I should like to know how that is done.

Andre:
Hi Squonk, I'll let Pirsig do the talking...he's much better at it than I am:
' Northrop's name for Dynamic Quality is 'undifferentiated aesthetic
continuum. 'By 'continuum he means that it goes on and on forever. By
'undifferentiated' he means that it is without conceptual
distinctions. And by 'aesthetic' he means that it has quality...I
think science would agree that 'Conceprually Unknown' is a good name
for it. What science might not agree on is that this Conceptually
Unknown is aesthetic. But if the Conceptually Unknown were not
aesthetic why should the scientific community be so attracted to it?

'If you think about it you will see that science would lose all
meaning without this attraction to the unknown. A good word for the
attraction is 'curiosity'. Without this curiosity there would never
have been any science.

'This aesthetic nature of the Conceptually Unknown is a point of
connection between the sciences and the arts. What relates science to
arts is that science explore the Conceptually Unknown in order to
develop a theory that will cover measurable patterns emerging from the
unknown. The arts explore the Conceptually Unknown in other ways to
create patterns such as music, literature, painting, that reveal the
Dynamic Quality that produced them. This description, I think, is the
rational connection between science and the arts'. (SODV paper
pp16/17).

'Curiosity', a 'beginner's mind' attitude. If you consider these
'emotional' states then you are correct Squonk.
I call it the 'exploration' of the DQ/SQ configuration, the result of
which may evoke an emotional response.

Regards
Andre



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