[MD] Bo's right! For all the wrong reasons? (Part1)

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Craig, previously]
> Pirsig says the choice of description is scientifically
> irrelevant. So it doesn't follow that if it's not
> scientifically one, then it's the other.

[Krimel]
> But it does make a difference and a very big one. To say that iron filing
> "prefer" proximity to magnet makes them causal agents.


> To make this work you
> have to strip the word "preference" of a host of connotated meanings. 
But it's always thus. When your 5th grade teacher told you iron filings 
are "attracted" to magnets, did you look across the aisle at that cute
red-haired girl & say "No way! They can't have the feelings I do."
Pirsig is investigating what it is to be a "causal agent". His view is that
it differs by levels. 
Craig