[MD] Emotions revisited

[Andre Broersen]

Hi Squonk,

This is just a quick one which I did not want to leave up in the air.
I suggested that emotions are a biological response to Quality but not
Quality itself.
I got the sense that you insisted on maintaining your point of
view,reducing all responses to quality, to emotions which is fine. But
I had lost the reference in Lila's Child and have now found it.

In Annotation 141: Mr.Pirsig says:
'As I understand the term, 'emotivism' is a way of reducing all value
to biology, thus making it a part of the SOM universe. The MoQ sees
emotions as a biological response to quality and not the same thing as
quality. There are many cases, particularly in economic activity where
values occur without any emotion'.

Bodvar may argue, and I think his classification is helpful in this
sense, that emotions are a social PoV. A biological response to...and
a social PoV is not necessarily a contradiction in terms.

Just wanted to clean this up...if only for my own peace of mind.

Regards
Andre